Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...
...mastered, and the qualifications demanded a more generally possessed. One should be sound and healthy in heart and lungs, and able to stand thumping and bumping for an hour or two with impunity. If to this hardiness be added a fleet foot, strong limbs, quick perception and presence of mind, one has the requisites of a foot-ball player. Of all college games this is the most accessible, and yet for the average and untrained student it is unquestionably the most dangerous...
...proctors to be retained, and that is this: their presence at examinations, however superfluous it may seem to some, at least harms nobody, while the proctorships offer to deserving graduates an easy way of earning money that does not come amiss to most of them. Let us bear in mind that proctors are mortals like ourselves. A good many people are under the same hallucination that Phyllis was in "Iolanthe," until she found out with surprise that the fairy, Iolanthe, "kisses just like other people." Proctors, on close inspection, are found to be surprisingly like other students. Although there...
That is a large body of evidence, and it is supported by almost all a priori reasoning. Why should a certain width of mind, which is what the universities really give, be injurious to efficiency? Graduates are as healthy as the most ignorant, and rather more given to activity. They are just as brave and just as industrious, and ought to be much better protected - though we admit this to be doubtful as matter of fact - against that weariness with the monotony of toiling life which is one of the most frequent causes of failure. The loss of time...
...university, so far as it is good in itself, and omitting the question whether it might not be much better, is good for all conditions of men whose work can be learned well when the mind has lost its first pliability. That a certain stiffness of mind, an inability to accommodate itself to new work of any kind, is the result, and the single result, of university training which acts as a drawback to success in practical life...