Word: mental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...safely guard us against excess. Anybody who has seen a young lady's copy of Tennyson, and searched in vain for an unmarked page, will recognize the evils of indulgence. Of course when it comes to marking other people's books, the injury is moral as well as mental...
...consecutive examinations are of course no test of whether the man has worked faithfully during the past term. We do not believe that any one, however thorough his knowledge, could do justice to five subjects in five successive mornings and afternoons. The test is only one of mental and physical endurance, and a severe one at that. The crowding of Junior metaphysics and logic into the morning and afternoon of the same day seems peculiarly unfortunate for those who wish to anticipate the logic. Since the Faculty refused to grant a petition for a change, signed by many...
...question of opening our Library Sunday is to be distinguished from the broad question of opening city libraries on that day. The working-man may, and doubtless does, find in the change from the noisy workshop to the quiet library and from manual to mental labor a real rest. Again, a city library reaches a class of the community which the church has not reached, - a class which needs just such help as a library can give...
...architects of the new Gymnasium are aiming to make it as complete as possible, and with that end in view have expressed themselves willing to receive suggestions from the students. It is to be hoped that a similar spirit will actuate the architects of our mental gymnasium, - the new hall for recitation and lecture rooms. That these rooms will be properly heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance...
...fellowships, open to recent graduates who may wish to pursue the study of mental and moral philosophy, have been established...