Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after year they have asked that by some means or other the place be made more inhabitable. It is not conducive to a high standard to give men their examinations in a room whose temperature is about that of a refrigerator. Most men do not get so heated by brain work that they need an atmosphere well down towards zero in which to be comfortable. And yet this seems to be the theory on which Massachusetts is heated-or rather left unheated. It does not seem to be an extravagant demand to ask that this hall be kept warmed hereafter...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...
...time. It cultivates laziness, and encourages procrastination by urging dependence on a few hours work to carry one along. This would be less painfully evident if any good came from this "cramming," but, on the contrary, a man forgets the few facts he has crammed together in his brain quite as rapidly as he learned them, and has nothing to repay him for his trouble excepting the severe mental strain he has been put to, which may be an injury to him perhaps all his life. There seems to be absolutely no good at all in work like this...
...ministers who also show "the vast political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel...
This from the Leaves shows the sentiment at Lasell: "Our eyes first fall on the Randolph Macon Monthly, which contains a poem on 'How to Kiss;' also, two or three other articles pertaining to the same subject. Somebody must have had osculation on the brain. 'Let the good work proceed, and joy be unconfined...