Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pugilism, we are sure that every man with a healthy mind will agree with Prof. Sargent that exhibitions of pugilism are degrading. It has come to pass that the efforts of the boxers are directed to hard hitting rather than to the practice of the nice points of attack and defence. The fighters and the spectators are more delighted by a blow that draws blood than by the most skilful pass or parry. Slugging is the modern art. Boxing in public is not an exhibition of the art which gentlemen practice for the development of the body and to stimulate...
...After the talk which followed President Eliot's remarks on "College Opinion" Monday night had gone on some time, I thought of giving a reminiscence of the "Conference Committee" of which I was one faculty member, when the meeting suddenly came to a close. In order to free my mind, I send my reminiscence to you. It concerns the matter of cheating at examinations, which the Conference Committee discussed at many meetings, and at considerable length. All wished to raise the tone of student honor, and if possible, to have the honor trusted, without proctors. But no practical scheme...
...There is so much spoken and unspoken criticism of Harvard College that those who know the inner working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature...
...next number of Scribner's Magazine will contain a paper by Prof. Wm. James, of Harvard, discussing an interesting mental problem in which he will show how far the will can fill the mind with an idea and so influence action...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I noticed in Saturday's issue of the CRIMSON a communication complaining of the negligence of the German department in reserving books in the library. Perhaps it will relieve the writer's mind to hear his complaint is based upon insufficient knowledge of facts...