Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into three characters, first born great, second to have greatness thrust upon you and third to make yourself great...
...classic Shades of Learning, forces me to challenge the educated world to prove any Heaven without life, reason, logic, order, harmony, genuine faith, belief in harmony with the organic and natural laws which govern, regulate and harmonize mankind in the present tense, heaven possessed in the human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend on the harmony of saving properties of the Deity for powers and their value is in their power. If the Faculty will give me some incouragement to write for the college papers, or a chance to speak in the transit of the Memorial Hall...
...grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before you). They are talking about Mrs. De Sorosis, and as I am a meek little person myself they do not mind me but continue the following conversation as though I was not present...
...commencement marks of the seniors have been given out, and the general fineness of distinction and finesse of the marking system may be seen from the fact that second place is distinguished from third by about one-thousandth of a point, a difference which only a very subtle mind can comprehend, and only then when an earnest study of infinitesimals has been made...
Thus, instead of being seekers after a strong, original style and clear expression, we become copyers of a style which another has adopted as being in his own mind good enough for all and beyond criticism. Theme writing cannot, of course, be dispensed with, but to improve as much as possible the various styles of the students, we think a greater range in subjects should be given, and that one rather impracticable should not be adopted as a criterion. The style which we endeavor to imitate is no doubt beautiful and good for some subjects, but the fact that...