Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students under their charge,- and in a direction which, we venture to assert, no one has ever suspected. It is the custom of the college to encourage interior decoration by paying the cost of the paper-hanging whenever a student re-papers his room. With this custom in mind a student recently engaged workmen to refit his room. After the work of re-papering was completed, he called upon the proper officer of the college to receive the customary allowance. This functionary expressed a wish to view the improvements, and was conducted to the room in question, which he closely...
...delinquents from blame. Attention is called to this bad bubit of game of the men among us again, and again, but apparently to was little purpose for the evil temporariy checked, soon increases to its old proportions. Cannot the thoughtless who are guilty of this annoyance keep in mind that their action disconcerts the reader or lecturer, and draws away the attention of the audience? A constant stream of men coming late often mars the first fifteen or twenty minutes of these public meetings in Sever 11, for the hard floors and wooden chairs of that lecture room...
...shown by the good results it will bring about in furthering the study of dramatic art and the art of expression. It has been shown by Mr. Jones that the study of elocution is one in which the best qualities of a student, refinement and depth of mind, may be well employed. In this way the readings have been both a benefit to the students and credit to the great college under which they were delivered...
...these days of rebellion against compulsory prayers, and of numerously signed, but ungranted petitions, it would be well to bear in mind the burdens under which the students of earlier days of the college had to struggle. During a part of the 17th, and the earlier years of the last century, prayers were held both morning and evening. In the morning each student had to translate a verse of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek, and in the evening a verse of the New Testament from the English or Latin translation into Greek. Before 1728, however, this system...
...intended to express ideas, but not to bind them in fetters. The force of an actor depends upon his physique; therefore the body should be cultivated. Your gymnasium is worth volumes on this subject; (applause from the gallery) but sometimes the body is cultivated at the expense of the mind." (Applause from the orchestra...