Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leader, and by the message itself. We have demonstrations in mathematics in which authority and reason are our own teachers, while in the demonstrations of the spirit no authority or arguments can be sufficient for us, because our souls cannot be touched except by the spirit. Every mind requires demonstrations according to its own nature, and only God knows our inner natures, and can respond to our demands...
...would not seem to sniff at political earnestness on the part of Harvard men. Let duty to our country is but one of the duties (perhaps the highest individual one) taught us by our Alma Mater; Mind, it is duty to our country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something...
...paper by Mr. John Trowbridge on "Economy in College Work" should interest every student of Harvard University, for we are to a great extent the subject of his criticisms. Mr. Trowbridge condemns severely the custom among us of selecting four college courses wich call for entirely different states of mind. Earnest work, in his opinion, can not be accomplished unless a man can give his whole thought to one subject for a certain time, at least three months. He advises selection of courses, which demands like states of mind, philosophy and political economy for example. The writer plainly shows...
...almost entirely on the practice it gets each day. We therefore urge all men to leave off as much as possible all motives except that of promoting the success of the university team and to come on the field in large numbers as formerly, with that one object in mind...
...WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, the world famed specialist in mind diseases, says: "I am familiar with various systems for improving the mind, including, among others, those of Feinaigle, Gourand and Dr. Pick, and I have recently become acquainted with the system in all its details and applications taught by Prof. Loisette. I am therefore enabled to state that his is, in all its essential features, entirely original; that its principles and methods are different from all others, and that it presents no material analogies to that of any other system...