Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whenever the latter is in high health and vigor. When the body is feeble and sickly, the mind is either checked and hampered in its impulses, or, attempting to ride them boldly forward, breaks down altogether. The habit of being beforehand with whatever a man undertakes is an important element of success. The only sure method of securing intellectual thrift and comfort of doing what one does without distraction. and so of doing it in the most healthy condition of one's faculties, is to establish the habit of anticipation in work. Have some fresh intellectual acquisition always in hand...
Perhaps we ought for the present to look upon the marking system as a necessary evil. Nevertheless we do not come to college to be marked; and it may be laid down as a truism that any course of instruction in which the element of marks preponderates over that of instruction, in which the energies of the instructor are expended in estimating the work rather than in criticising it, and in which the practical result and outcome of the student is a mark and not the means by which to do better,-that any such course of study...
...following is taken from a letter to the Oberlin Review :-My three hours visit made me like Harvard. Her students are evidently gentlemen, and during my short stay I saw not one element of rowdyism which is observed so much in some Eastern colleges...
...appointment for examination may not be too long delayed. The award will be based on the general physical improvement of the competitor between his two examinations, i.e. between November 1 and the time of the Winter Athletic Meetings in March. Dr. Sargent will be the sole judge, and the element of muscle-increase will be the principal one in making the decisions. The prizes will be given on the first Ladies' Day in the Winter Meetings...
...matters were allowed to go on for a number of years as they did for the past year it is my opinion that the athlete would spend far more time on his athletics than he did when there was a trainer and that thus, although the objectionable "professional" element would be taken away, the other objection so often urged "that athletics take too much time" would be greatly increased. Besides this if there is no trainer an athlete can not help worrying more than he otherwise would and thus another objectionable feature is introduced. From all this I conclude that...