Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEMIANNUALS, with all their accompanying trials, have been a subject of such general and vital interest to the undergraduate mind during the past three weeks, that the question, Are they an unmixed good? may not be out of place...
...instead of investigating it by ourselves, we look about for some kindred spirits, to gather together and vote that the subject is worth investigation. This is particularly noticeable in college. Independent action is altogether out of fashion, while organizations exist for the furtherance of almost every-object that the mind of man can devise. And of these organizations I mean to speak...
...into details to such an extent, as to greatly diminish the number of those who take advantage of it. What is wanted is not an advanced course for the few, but an elementary course for all. Once the foundations of the science are mastered, and well impressed upon the mind, the superstructure will come of itself by observation and experience...
...absence of such a course in our curriculum is all the more blameworthy and unnecessary in view of the required studies which are still retained. Will any unbiassed mind prefer Trigonometry to Political Economy, either as regards the practical utility of the study or its value in training the mind? Can it be more valuable to a man to be able to solve an oblique triangle than to understand the questions of financial policy which are agitating the whole country? Our colleges and schools are responsible for the prevailing ignorance of Political Economy. Harvard takes the lead by ceasing...
...received in New England Buoy would be quite out of place. But Neophogen is not Boston. At Neophogen Buoy was the best obtainable, and a useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire to be a man of fashion, do not neglect the Buoys and the Stickers of society wherever you happen to meet them...