Word: mental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proper understanding of the development of the universities, it is desirable to glance at the growth of the prototypes of all universities, Bologna and Paris. The causes which made these institutions possible are the same. When the crusades had thoroughly leavened the social and mental structure of Europe, the municipalities of Lombardy demanded a corps of trained administrators to cope with the problems of a vigorous trading policy and intense political strife. This tendency was localized by the pitching of Irnerius and an able body of successors who maintained the glory of the school. At the beginning of the 13th...
...city called Ephraim." There is throughout the whole life of Jesus this continual contrast of society and solitude. Thus it was in perfect keeping that at this great crisis of his life, on the Thursday before Palm Sunday, Jesus should have turned aside to commune with himself. In the mental as well as the moral life we all need times of refreshment, quiet moments for reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross...
Many people excuse their selfish worldly lives on the plea that such a life as is enjoined in the text is impossible in this age of ours; which, with its boasted civilization and culture, is an age of mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory...
...direct them will have the benefit of the best of all assistance. Those who have prepared for college in good schools will as a rule have the advice of their teachers, who are likely to be specially competent to direct them from the knowledge they have acquired of their mental characteristics. What with the power of self-direction that the older and more earnest-minded students will have, the guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem...
...week out of fifteen, junior year, and twelve hours out of fifteen, senior year, in class-room exercises, the rest being prescribed, and consisting mainly of physical science and philosophy. The elective courses from which choice may be made are ninety-two in number, arranged in seven departments - Mental and Moral Science, Political Science and Law, History, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages and Linguistics, Natural and Physical Science and Mathematics...