Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...state of mind of the writer when subscribing his name, I have fancied, may be often seen from his handwriting. Some there are who seem to be frightened, so as almost to be unable to leave a legible trace; others seem inspired by their surroundings and turn out specimens that would be creditable to a writing academy. Young ladies seem to be the majority of those who put down their names. Very often there appears a long list of ladies' names, from some distant place, grouped in a pleasant chorus...
...full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left at their mercy. "Take my life, but spare my peanuts," he cried in anguish; "sole reminders...
Members of Physics 4 received a pleasant surprise on going to the examination Tuesday. After waiting half an hour for their papers a proctor was sent after them, who, returning, reported that the examination had entirely slipped the mind of the professor in charge, who had consequently neglected to prepare any paper - a case of absent-mindedness only equalled perhaps by that of the professor who once on inquiring for his mail at the post-office, was unable to give his own name to the clerk, and departed highly indiguant at the obtuseness of the latter in failing to understand...
Prof. Eliot recently addressed a meeting held in Boston for the promotion of Christian education in Liberia, West Africa. One of the professors of the college at Liberia stated that the Liberian College was to that country what Harvard had been to Massachusetts - an institution for moulding the mind and principles of the people. Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody is at the head of the trustees of the Liberia College...
...Stanley Hall's last lecture on "Pedagogy," the prevalent system of crowding the mind of the scholar and college student with a mass of ideas for the special purpose of passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated...