Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grape are hurtful in the extreme; although they may give at the time some passing pleasure, yet their whole effect is necessarily abnormal and unproductive of any good results whatsoever. Let the society system be protected by all and saved from abuse, that it may remain in the public mind an emblem of one of the countless advantages that a collegiate life gives...
...great an extent the library is being used by the students this year in comparison with previous years, yet the disadvantages of a large number of men wanting the same books have not yet been done away with. It ought, therefore, to be in the mind of every man who uses the library, that he is not the only person in existence who is likely to want any particular book. There are very few men who are so thoroughly self-engrossed that they forget this fact; but we have heard of some, we regret to say, who, ensconcing themselves behind...
...team really wishes to make anything out of the material at its disposal, and have any chance against Andover and the class elevens, it must make up its mind to work hard, and not to take things in a happy-go-lucky style...
Among the many pleasures and exercises with which Harvard men divert themselves, polo is one about which the students at large know but little. If anyone of an inquiring turn of mind should walk out on Brattle Street for about half an hour, he would come to the grounds of the Harvard Polo Club. There is nothing magnificent about them, no immense grand stand, but only a shed which gives shelter in rainy weather to the players and the ponies alike. The field is about twice the size of Jarvis, and is covered with a good turf. The situation...
...training oarsmen is to run them from one to five miles per day in the hope of thus increasing their staying powers. This I believe to be wrong, for assuredly if a man was training for a running race, he would not practice throwing the hammer. To my mind the only desirable training for a race is to work at the oars or weights...