Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THERE has been such a storm of petty complaints on the subject of the bowling-alleys, that a word on the other side may not be out of place. In the first place, as to the "professor in bowling." It is evident to any unprejudiced mind that such a person is a help, not a hindrance. At Yale the men have been clamoring for exactly the same thing that the Echo so strongly protests against. They have had no one to superintend their alleys, and in consequence the balls are cracked and chipped, and the lower end of the alleys...
...grim shaggy mountain could make her spirit other than a gentle one. Nature made her in the mood in which she made the roses, the sunlight, and the dew, and she made her one with all of them. She was a poem, this lady of the wilderness,- her mind was a mirror of the divine life of nature. It is not true that 'men must have enough knowledge of the world to see the vanity of it' before solitude will become them. Only when alone with nature does man cease to be an egotist. I never meet the artificial lilies...
...rest, but from the extras forced upon us in more than one course, the vacation is partially, if not wholly, consumed in hard work. In the not unique case where a man has four examinations, one in laboratory work, in three days, it is perfectly evident to an unprejudiced mind that the exhausted student will not do himself justice on the fourth examination. A short extension of the semi-annuals would remove all these evils, and we trust that the examinations in June may not be crowded into a space of time which is out of all proportion...
Then was a vision to my mind unrolled...
...cudgelling ever his weary mind...