Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...passion may be excited. It is for this reason that I wish to offer an apology, if in the following I should seem to speak irreverently of old college articles of faith and of customs springing from them. The subject of the Class elections is turning the mind of some portion of the undergraduates towards Class-Day. And while we are yet far enough off to examine coolly, let us ask ourselves whether we should not be acting in an honester way if we gave up some of the exercises on that day, however agreeable they...
...near noon, not later, at least, than three o'clock. It has been said, however, that this advantage of the present hour of dinner is modified by the necessity of recitation and study immediately preceding and following dinner. This may be so; the great tension of the mind attendant on severe mental labor should be relaxed before eating; but that there is sufficient tension during recitation to produce injury, if dinner immediately succeed, we cannot believe. To recite a lesson already learned requires little exertion, may even tend, by gradual relaxation after a morning's work, to put the mind...
...winter months alone, there would be but one hour for the purpose, and were dinner at five there would be none at all. The latter, then, presents no advantage; does the change to six o'clock present any? To answer this question fairly, it must be kept in mind that not the interests of the boating and bail-clubs alone are to be consulted, and that the recreation, for perhaps it is nothing more, of the still greater number, can come at almost any time. It can hardly be denied that few, if any, cannot, under the present system, obtain...
...practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal objections should have small weight in these discussions, as it is probable that, through...
...eagerness with which about one fourth of the Senior Class embraced the opportunity offered them to obtain instruction in elocution is worthy of notice, as it is a very good indication of the opinion of the student mind of the value of such instruction. The importance of elocution is gravely questioned by some educators, who claim - and reasonably so for the most part, it seems to us - that when one has anything to say, he will be able to say it, and most forcibly, in his own natural manner, and that therefore all artificial helps are useless...