Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...deal very much to his mind...
...naught of the kind is the Tutor's mind...
...Sophomore and Junior years there are certain required studies to which professors are assigned by the Faculty. To have these instructors elected by the students would, of course, be absurd, and is too illusory a hope to be cherished a moment in the undergraduate mind. Since these studies are required, it is presumably a fact that the Faculty deem them important elements in a gentleman's education. They, therefore, ought to take pains to insure to every graduate more than a mere smattering. Everybody allows that such instructors as are appointed to have charge of these studies should consult...
...water-drinkers, must be carrying around a small internal menagerie, or, rather, aquarium, by this time. But time hardens the Commoner to almost anything, and to some it may be amusing to watch the little creatures at play. If one of these persons is of an inventive turn of mind, he might have his name handed down to posterity as the inventor of some kind of minute fishing-tackle by which these sportive creatures could be caught. The fishing could be engaged in between courses (?), and might divert the minds of all from unpleasant contemplation...
...took occasion, recently, to look it through again, and I see no reason "why it should not have been censured at the time of its publication because the characters were taken from Newgate." Although the remark might apply equally well to "Paul Clifford," I had not this book in mind, nor was I, as the author of "Lord Lytton" insinuates, totally ignorant of the story of "Eugene Aram" when I made the above-quoted comment. On the contrary, I then considered, as I still do, that this story, whose interest culminates in the unravelling of a mysterious murder, in which...