Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving as a secondary consideration the learning the details of that subject...
While other young men are eager to acquire a sufficient knowledge of trade to allow them to assume a business air and talk volubly of the rise and fall of stocks, the average collegiate is gloriously indifferent to it. Such topics awaken no interest in his breast. It makes no difference to him what gold is quoted at, and he never troubles himself to ascertain. He is told of the panic, of the very dull times, etc., but to no purpose; a panic is something of which he has no clear conception, and of dull times his idea...
...whole matter loses its interest when one feels that it does not particularly affect him; that everything, even down to the term-bill, has been carefully provided for, so that any solicitude on his part would be superfluous...
...Yale College, three years ago, foot-ball was unknown; last year, the foot-ball ground was crowded every afternoon; this year, nobody takes the slightest interest in it. - Neolaean Review...
...considered. Let not the decision be left until the spring freshets, and then given to a committee who are more pleased with a course if they are driven round town in carriages and lunched than by the merits of the course itself. Let us take advantage of the present interest, and remove all obstructions to a sport which is to strengthen the American character as well as American muscle...