Word: brained
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...basis of this argument is the variability of human brain-power. This makes the system of marking solely on two three-hour examinations very unfair. For it is certainly not right, since no instructor or student is exempt from this condition of our mental and nervous constitution, to judge of a man's year's work by three hours' work of a brain which, acted on by many causes, favorable or unfavorable, may be either extremely active or extremely inactive at a time selected at random, so far as the individual student's health is concerned. Why should several...
...some close corner of my brain...
Love me in thy kindling brain...
...When Harvard was true to her seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, her halls were filled with the brain and brawn of New England. Now that she is, in the words of Henry Martyn, 'crucifying Christ between two thieves, the classics and mathematics,' how has she fallen from her former position...
...soon, brain-sick, we fall away...