Word: brains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Notice has been taken of the close relation of mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here he said, "There will be much I say which cannot be demonstrated. However, I do think that thought can be proved as the product of the brain, which is the seat of thought. There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always...
...spent in rest or in ways not directly connected with instruction, and besides, when employed, his day is shorter than other laborers. With this as a basis, an argument is made which goes to prove the reasonableness of the great difference in the number of hours that the brain worker can profitably labor, and that demanded of the man engaged in physical labor. The reason is this: nature has so constructed man that his physical powers of endurance greatly exceed his mental endurance...
...many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work, and it seems to be the tendency everywhere...
...Elmer L. Cummings of the senior class died Monday night, after an illness of about two weeks, of tubercular meningitis of the brain. The funeral will be at 1 o'clock today (Wednesday) at his home, No. 32 Mt. Auburn Street...
...four years he was in college. He was the son of Henry S. Paul of Philodelphia. He graduated from Harvard last June having completed a four year's course in chemistry. Since graduation he has been on an extensive tour through Europe. His death was due to nervous and brain troubles. On Tuesday evening he wandered away from the house and disappeared. On the following day his body was found in the Delaware river. His sudden and unexpected death will be deeply felt by an unusually large circle of acquaintances both in college and in Cambridge...