Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumor that there would be no morning prayers during the semis has been going the rounds. It must have come from a man with a very imaginative mind, fond of building castles...
...college? Last Saturday in Sever 6 between twelve and one o'clock, we witnessed a sight which carried us back a good many years, to schoolboy days. It is very pleasant of course at proper times and in proper places to have one's early schooldays recalled to mind: but a Harvard recitation room is not a proper place. We wonder that the instructor was so forbearing; he would certainly have been justified in taking much stronger action, instead of merely asking for better attention...
...time and attention devoted to the physical training of college students. It is, so to speak, but few years since the undergraduates at most of our colleges were left to shift for themselves. Now every facility is offered them for exercise of the body, as well as of the mind * * * * from Harvard, with its magnificent Hemenway Gymnasium, down to the smallest "fresh water" college, we note a steady improvement in this all-important branch of culture. Evidently we are soon to realize the time-worn maxim, mens sana in corpore sano...
...paper scheme, but one based upon something firm, with every probability of a successful outcome. It is a plan which will give the Tennis Association a place in the regard of every student as high as that now occupied by the H. A. A. or the Boat Club. The mind's eye is filled with a pleasing picture of the future. A half-score of fine, level turf courts, and three or four times as many of hard roofed clay, scattered over the unused portions of Holmes and Jarvis fields, copying the portions not devoted to other sports, will present...
...reverence lay in the fact that he was the typical strong man of the college. I doubt whether I should have had the perseverance to wriggle my way through the examinations for admission had I not been constantly stimulated by the reflection that Bill Blaikie was (to my mind) the central fact of the university...