Word: mereness
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...course of readings from the Divine Comedy which Professor Norton has just begun in Boston will be similar to the course which was given here, but more in the form of lectures than of mere translations. This gives an excellent opportunity to get a clear idea of Dante's great work, and those who omitted to hear Professor Norton last winter should endeavor to attend this course, if they can manage to do so. An analysis of the portions omitted and comments on the portions read will secure a thorough understanding and enjoyment of the poem; and the readings will...
...pass unnoticed, we have to give offence. The characteristic of the gentleman is to give no offence in matters about which morality has little or no concern. But against flippant talk about dishonorable and vicious acts it is his duty to express himself. Outside of college such statements are mere truisms, but in some quarters in college they seem to be regarded as new and impossible...
...Stuff!" she interrupted, "the elective system is a failure. You keep boys steadily at school from the time they are big enough to run alone, pick out their studies for them without consulting their own wishes, give them no chance to learn anything outside of books, treat them as mere cramming machines, and then, after this process has gone on ten or a dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave...
...stiffer, more labored, and less efficient efforts of the new men. To the old men rowing seems to be the most natural thing in the world. It is worth rowing a couple of years to acquire that graceful, powerful style and swing which seem to make the severest labor mere pastime. The new men are stout, vigorous fellows; but they bucket, catch behind the others, do not go back far enough, hurry forward again, and waste more strength in one stroke than the old men do in ten. To row well, as to do well anything worth doing, requires long...
...disturbance in the Yard Tuesday night was caused by a band of musicians accompanied by a numerous retinue of muckers attempting out of mere bravado to make a circuit of the College buildings. They did not succeed...