Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teacher; first, he must be master of his work and have ability to inform and instruct; second, he must have the rare gift of being able to stimulate and incite his pupils and to convert the knowledge he posessed into to a lever lift, exercise and strengthen the growing minds committed to his care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they elect courses under. Naturally a man reasons that in the choice of an elective...
...gist of Professor Tyndall's remarks is that unless there be a natural interest between instructor and students, that unless a bond of sympathy exists between them. time is wasted in taking this particular course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with...
...dickens! You don't say! Never mind. I'm going home any way. Not go home Thanksgiving! Never! You don't see me back here in these 'classic shades' until the Monday after Thanksgiving...
...enable us, in a measure, to get rid of the ever-present "mucker" who does so much to render the game unpopular. It could arrange a place of deposite where skaters could leave such superfluous articles as they should choose to lay aside for a moment. I have in mind other uses to which it could be put, but these are enough to show its possibilities...
...duty. Such men, unfortunately are not few. We see them at regular hours in the gymnasium, doing everything in a mechanical sort of way. They are doubtless benefited, and perhaps considerably benefited, by this gymnasium exercise. But such a thing gets monotonous; the body is active, but the mind becomes uninterested. Mechanical exercise may be very good, but it is not merely as beneficial as modes of exercise which are for something additional to merely physical development. My meaning is just this. A man might. knock a tennis ball about all day, even have a net to knock it over...