Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Neither can it be argued that those who should themselves take part in the proposed literary contests would be improved in mind and character as the crews are physically. For physical work is equally beneficial under whatever motive it is undertaken, but this is not true of scholarly or literary work. The true motive of scholarship, and the one which, above all others, needs encouragement in American colleges, is self-improvement, without regard to other men or other objects, not a boyish desire to be first in a contest for prizes...
...daily presence of her students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some of his most enduring college friendships were formed and fostered; if he connects it in his mind with four years of genial intercourse around a social board, our patriot alumni are more truly honored in the fond memory of every graduate, than when their names are graven on marble tablets, in letters of lasting gold...
...tell me exactly what constitutes mind...
...Since mind is no matter, I would like it defined...
...Built to keep alive precious examples of brave devotion to country, truth, and duty, it is a place to be proud of and to become attached to, - a place around which in successive generations pleasant associations and inspiring memories will gather, - a place to exert upon the opening mind of youth a wholesome though unnoticed influence...