Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...study of law in college would be very beneficial, not only from a practical point of view, but also from a theoretical one. It trains the mind to concise thinking, and perhaps excels every other in teaching the student not to regard matters superficially, but to search deeply for underlying causes, and not to be misled by appearances...
...Harvard is a University," says the Freshman, who has been here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into the statement, "Harvard is the best College in America"; which is agreeable, but open to the charge of vagueness. Negatively, I think, it may be taken for granted that "Harvard is not a high school." It is also plain that Harvard...
...This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions, the questions themselves should be such that they will allow time for the extra work. When the instructor looks over the books, I trust he will bear in mind the fact that they were written, in some parts, by mortals who were prevented, by a longing for lunch, from giving up their whole minds to Rhetoric...
Thus the records of the mind...
...peace of soul and mind...