Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayeius' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Statesman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Horey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Ofun Daor, John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...President and Fellows unluckily do not give their reasons, but the only creditable reasons must be either the belief that God is pleased with the presence in a chapel or church of unwilling, irritated, and irreverent worshippers, brought thither by the fear of temporal punishment, and does not mind the set against all religion which such a process is very apt to give young men; or the belief that a man is benefited by being present in any place in which prayers are being offered, no matter in what state of mind he may be, and no matter what agency...
...called the contrivance known as English grammar absurd, and the study of it a useless study; and I verily and soberly believe both these assertions to be true. I believe that the effect of the study of English grammar, so called, is to cramp the free action of the mind; to bewilder and confuse where it does not enfeeble and formalize; to pervert the perception of the true excellence of English speech; and, in brief, to substitute the sham of a dead form for the reality of a living spirit. Where words have no varying forms indicative of their various...
...college are to be congratulated upon Mr. Irving's acceptance of the invitation to speak before the college. Mr. Irving is so wellknown to Harvard men, that he needs no particular introduction to their notice. Both by his long experience upon the stage, and the scholarly attributes of mind which distinguish him as an actor and manager, he is pre-eminently qualified to speak upon the subject of Dramatic Art. The college will await his coming with interest...
...taking notes the student has the subject more strongly impressed upon him. To write a thing is almost to remember it; to have classifications and diversions, chapters and paragraphs in visible form on paper, is to give to them more decided shape in the mind, and therefore, greater possibility of being readily comprehended. The careful note-taker is a sort of artist, and in a page covered with paragraphs, and sub-paragraphs, a-b.c's and 1-2-3's he sees a picture, a closer scrutiny of which reveals to him the thought and life that it represents...