Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought in any lasting form while at Harvard? I doubt if traces of a student's four years' training are ever distinct enough to be discovered ten years after he leaves Cambridge. The man who possesses the most original mind by nature receives none of those impulses found in a sympathetic band of thinkers. Usually he simply moves along the even tenor of his way unbenefitting and unbenefitted...
...fault in our courses of instruction that I wish to signal out, but rather an accident in our college life. It is scarcely fair to expect men of the average age of the American collegian to compete in strength or breadth of mind with the older class who frequent European universities, but there are other equally valid reasons for our shortfallings...
...wishes to associate. The more studious man will look to the college which offers the best prizes and affords the best opportunities for gaining instruction. But that large class of men which goes to college with other considerations equal to that of acquiring knowledge and culture, also bears in mind what kind of men it will be thrown in with in one college rather than another and decides accordingly. This is no small attraction of English university life; that is to say the intimacy which one enjoys with men of the same general turn of mind, and the possible benefits...
...essential difference between pulling on cleats and pulling on the soft earth. Candidates for the team to be sent to the Polo Grounds can best be chosen from the class tug-of-war teams, but when the team chosen begins practice in the spring it should be borne in mind that they are training for a contest essentially different from those of the winter meetings...
After giving an excellent description of the new Law School building the writer goes on to say : "It does not require a legal mind to see that with the beginning of the next academic year the would-be member of the bar is to receive his training in Coke and Blackstone under most luxurious surroundings. Whether the next generation of lawyers will be keener or more learned than those drilled in the close rooms of Dane Hall is a question, but that the Harvard student will be superior to others in his conception of the worth and dignity...