Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing the team should bear in mind is that almost all Yale's victories have been due as much to her prestige as to her skill, to the other team going into the contest with the expectation of being defeated. The only times of late years when Yale has been met by a really confident team have been the last two Yale-Princeton games. In the first one, the game was never finished, but it was anybody's game all the way through, while last year's game resulted in a well-earned victory for Princeton. These two games...
...repay at once the zeal of the student with deep moral satisfaction. It is a science so noble and fascinating that it helps wonderfully to form the character of intelligent youths, yet it is true that its study requires the spirit of enterprise, plenty of money, a subtle mind, and constancy of application...
...prevent them? Most assuredly the latter. We are given to understand, from good authority, that the faculty does not wish to hear of breaches of discipline in the college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like an isolated house in a ten acre lot. but that there is a certain duty of self-restraint which devolves upon all who live in such close proximity to one another...
With the inauguration of Dr. Brooks as minister to the college, we think it fitting to speak of a matter which, although perhaps unexpressed, has been in the minds of many of us. We all feel it a great loss that at our daily morning services so little of the personality of the minister has a chance to express itself. We cannot gainsay the conviction that in the mere reading of the service, however beautiful it may be, to derive the full benefit of the noble soul and masterly mind of these men who so generously give up their time...
...Creighton spoke as follows: It is most proper that so close upon the celebration of the past few days that the students at Harvard should call to mind some of the more important of Harvard's predecessors in England and on the Continent. The old abbeys and monasteries were the foundations of the present universities, but these centres of learning had but little permanence. The best scholars did not long remain in one place, but became travelling teachers. We must trace then, how these men began to co-operate in the prosecution of their studies, and how thereby they formed...