Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Daniel Pratt was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1809. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and followed that trade for a time, but disappeared suddenly and was not seen at home again for a dozen years. When he returned his mind was unbalanced, and from that time on he led a wandering life...
...when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That he was a man of a good deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely...
...certain departments, particularly those of history and of political economy, are not up to the highest standard as regards variety. Comparing our electives with those offered at a great European university, like that of Berlin or that of Paris, the number will appear small. It must be borne in mind, however, that the staff of instructors employed at these universities far exceeds ours, and that, in proportion to the number of professors, we have as large a number of courses as any university abroad. In fact, I believe that carefully collected statistics would show that the instructors at Harvard...
...took English courses other than those required by the faculty. It does not follow that 192 different students studied English, for some may have taken more than one course, but that the number of men in all the courses in English amounted to 192. Bearing this inaccuracy in mind, we may now see to what results we are led. In 1883-4, 20 per cent. of the students studied optional English; in 1885-6, 453 out of the 1006 students took English, or 45 per cent. of all the students in college. This marked increase - more than double...
...Cambridge "muckers" both large and small was manifest night before last. Several forays and assaults it was our lot to witness and most assuredly they were begun, although perhaps not carried to a finish by half-grown men who had not yet learned what it was to mind their own business. That some efficient means should be employed for the prevention of such performances in the future, no one can sincerely doubt; yet how can the desired end be accomplished. The athletic committee is probably the proper executive for these duties. We therefore would appeal to it to take...