Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make their choice with the utmost care, under the best advice, and in such a manner that their studies from the first to last may form a rationally connected whole." This is excellent advice, but it is to be feared that not all students are in a state of mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite...
...good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish to connect his name with...
...feel an interest in the study of dramatic expression and desire a higher course of training than that afforded by the elementary courses in elocution." This attempt to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution puts one in mind of the eager and superficial athlete who wishes to run in the New York athletic games, but considers the daily routine work of the team unworthy of his remarkable powers. When your talented correspondent is older and wiser, he will begin to realize that the "study of dramatic expression" consists...
...number of men who eat in the Hall. It was but to-day that the cold beef given us at luncheon was more like a cold, iced piece of leather than any substance of nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such food is really injurious, and we have in mind now at least one student who is obliged to leave on account of his health, because the food has become unbearable. Would it not be policy for the directors to look into the matter a little...
...grounds, and the team will have the support of all the men in college, and of all the graduates who can possibly get here, all of whom have confidence in the team, and feel sure that it is only necessary for the eleven to make up its mind to win, for them to surprise Yale more than the boat race two years...