Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hard to find specimens of the genus man with more unlike characteristics than the German and the American university student. So fundamental is this difference that it reaches back into the years before he goes to the university. Our American boy make up his mind that he must do hard and faithful work in school from his sixteenth to his eighteenth year, in order that he may enter the college of his choice, free from all conditions. On an average the American schoolboy at this age is earnest, persevering, and sincere in his work. His dissipations, if wholesome...
...other courses. It is no child's play to plough through all the notes he must have taken by this time of the year on his various studies. An occasional hour examination is possibly a good thing to beget interest, but that good is hardly great enough, to my mind, to countenance the prevalence of them that now exists. Already this term I have had six; doubtless others have had more...
...HOWELLS, Secretary.PIERIAN SODALITY.-Every member should bear in mind that in order to play in the concert, attendance at the rehearsal to night is required...
...exist in every community of men with "diversified functions" shall be wiped out of the life at Harvard. The communication which appears in our columns this morning points out an undoubted evil, and its writer does wisely to call attention to it. However, it is well to bear in mind that a man's sociability is, after all, a limited quantity and that he will choose his friends from those who are most congenial to him. This stands as an unalterable fact and no revolution in our social life can affect it a whit...
...fact, we can imagine nothing more soothing and refreshing to an intellectual man than the delivery of a course of lectures this winter on the journalistic art, illustrated by the writings of those illustrious practitioners, 'Judas,' 'Ananias' and 'The Bilk' of this city. To lead the young Cornell mind through the various phases of a controversy carried on by these gentlemen, mingling instruction with criticism on the way, would surely be far more recreative, as well as far more interesting, than doing the mechanical drudgery of the Senate clerkship...