Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...richly endowed university is in progress of construction at Worcester, Mass. The plans and intentions of the founder are given in another column. There is a question in the minds of many learned and able men whether the munificent sum donated by its founder, Mr. Clark, could not have been used to better purpose by endowing one of the many small colleges struggling for an existence, or by placing the money in the hands of the trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark...
...athletics is naturally the chances of the foot-ball team in the coming contest with Harvard and Princeton. The newspaper reports on the prospects of the eleven have in general reflected the sentiments of the college in regard to this question. There can be no possible doubt in the mind of anyone who has been a constant spectator at the practice games that with the material at hand only the most diligent work on the part of every member of the team will enable Yale to make a good showing in the championship games. The most glaring fault...
...minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew...
...football team in not coming out to practice on the field during a rainstorm. It expresses the nope that no one will ever have the opportunity again of saying that '91 is a fair weather foot-ball class. It would be well for our freshmen to bear this in mind and play football, rain or shine, as they will hereafter at New Haven...
...Chapel was founded to represent to men that they are something more than mere students in the common acceptance of the term. The more the student knows he is a scholar the more he feels himself a man. If a man believes in Him who saved the world, his mind must become enlarged. The fragments of life are here brought into unity, and for this reason the university, and, above all, the chapel, were founded...