Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should rightly adjust the emotional and intellectual elements of his life, giving to neither exclusive-influence in his thought or action, but while seeing truth with a clear mind, he should grasp at its feeling with a heart for many and the experimental knowledge of what friendship...
...should be full of reverence for the divine truth, and no self-conceited sceptic or enemy, with a mind open to conviction and a heart large enough for that thankfullness and love, and every Christian virtue. He should, in a word, be ready to take the lessons which the common mother reads to him from all her past life, and give them their own transforming and elevating power with in his soul. - Boston Herald...
...Mott Haven team of '87 begins its existence to-day. Its success in past years makes it almost unnecessary for us to give it the benefit of our advice. But there are a few cautions it will be wise to heed. In the first place we must bear in mind that Yale has a very strong team and that there are besides, other colleges which confidently expect to win the Mott Haven Cup for themselves. Our own team is weakened, or we must suppose it so until the new candidates prove themselves worthy successors of the old prize winners...
...work and how to systemize that. There are many men in college to-day who have their electives chosen for their whole college course, and when changes have been or are necessary, they are made judiciously, with the conception of the unity of the whole well in mind. The system of making an outline of one's college course soon after entering, is becoming more general every year, and it will not be long, we believe, before it becomes universal. When it does, the triumph of the elective system will be complete...
There are three dangers into which young students of archaeology are apt to fall and they consist in (1) a misconception of what constitutes thoroughness of research; (2) the detrimental predominance of the collector's frame of mind, and lastly the ill-judged and premarure introduction of allied studies into archaeology. People think it necessary to go back into the prehistoric development of Greek social life and art when they begin to teach archaeology. This would be more logical if the science were a more firmly established one. As it is, the true method of research seems...