Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm weather. We have in mind certain tennis courts on the north side of Jarvis that were almost ruined by the wear and tear of mucker ball games. The muckers hold full sway; they annoy us at every step, sometimes because we, forsooth, are in their way, and sometimes with malice aforethought...
...comes back to enter with his class, is examined only in those requirements in which he has not yet passed. The advantages of such a system would be two fold. In the first place, it would be better for the boy; he would have so much off his mind and could give undivided attention to his other studies, instead of looking forward to an examination embracing the work of three or four years; he would be examined at the end of each year in the studies of the preceding twelve-month. The effect would be stimulating to the preparatory students...
...given a great impetus and an interest which formerly was rapidly disappearing. It is a fallacy to suppose a man can learn much of a language, be it ancient or modern, by "digging out" a bad translation with a small dictionary and a poor "trot," or by filling his mind full of grammar which he neither cares about nor remembers. It has been acknowledged that the best way to learn any language is to hear it spoken and we know for a certainty that children (who learn most rapidly, especially if they are young) do not reason...
...full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur in time, any small-sized college can offer as good instruction and as great an opportunity to study special branches as the great universities, then there will not be a moment of hesitation in the mind of the future collegian as to which he will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both intellectually and socially more than they benefit it pecuniary, and that the now almost total loss...
...whole-soulness with which every class at Yale enters upon its duties is refreshing; but even this advantage which Yale possesses is rapidly disappearing, the large classes that now enter tending to do away with it. Many a graduate of our large colleges leaves them with great benefit of mind, it is true, but without any good socially. Such a man looks back on college years bitterly, without affection or sentiment, for to him his alma mater has been a good instructor,-that is all. For success, a class wherever it be, must associate and act in unison...