Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would so much like to know what Harvard men think about the letter. I don't believe they think it so fearfully vicious, because honestly and truly I did not mean a single bad thing. I showed the letter to a lady friend, and she said she wouldn't mind at all what the Miscellany said, and then she told me a story about the Duchess of Shrewsbury, but she said something in French, and after what the Miscellany said I'll never use French again...
...poor fellow who runs the "Exchange" column of the Michigan University Chronicle has been having trouble with his mind lately, and in consequence has been led off into some vagaries by that gay deceiver, the Oberlin Review, which we feel sure he will repent of as soon as he comes to himself again. We cannot exactly explain the phenomenon, but there exists, we think, a curious epidemic in some of the Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody...
Professor William James contributes an article "On some Hegelisms" to "Mind" for April...
...between student and instructor becomes more and more natural." The main policy of all her instruction is "to teach men to go, instead of being led." This is the key-note of her whole system - to give the power of self-directed and watchful thought; - the trained habit of mind which enables a man to think continuously and accurately. This is what "Harvard's degree will mean." The system of second-year and final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure concentrated and coordinated work, the system of "honorable mention...
...amount of general intelligence given by the Eastern preparatory schools, which supply a large proportion of Harvard's students, and by the schools which prepare for Oberlin, taking into consideration, at the same time, the comparative ages of students at admission with their consequent maturity or immaturity of mind, and also the relative breadth and liberality of culture imparted during the freshman year by influences, both direct and indirect, at either place, the substantial truth of our first thesis as an illustration remains still unimpaired. We would, by no means, be willing to use the University of Michigan in this...