Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shores, to your attainments, your industry, and your large, generous and tranquil nature. Or should you decide to return here, and not bear further abuse, come to my housetop and abide with me, where you will be welcomed and loved as a brother. And bear this in mind my dear boy: The more you are abused the more welcome you will be. For I remember how kind your country was to me, and at your age I had not done one-tenth your work. May my right hand fail me when I forget this. But don't you lose heart...
...responsible young men who have chosen one or more of these sciences for a life work." But the college should aim to give a general preparatory culture to boys and youths, graduating them at the age of from eighteen to twenty. "It should be an institution for training the mind and disciplining the character, and should not aim to be an institution of learning, in the broad sense of the term. The teacher's personal interest in the student should not be diverted by ambition for renown as a scholar, nor the efficiency of his teaching encumbered by large numbers...
...departments of human knowledge, as the entire course of most of our Western sisters (e. g. Oberlin) afford in their whole four years. This is not a matter of pride, but simply a matter of fact. This entire discussion in the Nation cannot but serve to clear the public mind on all these questions, and so is to be welcomed. We commend an examination of the Nation's articles on this matter to all college men once more...
...wise affecting the beauty of the place. For, although it has a much more splendid beauty in the summer, yet even in the middle of the winter it has a cold, still charm that endears it very much to the student of a pedestrian turn of mind, who starts off early in the morning, if possible, and tramps all over the country, finding substantial support in the good old cider and cold meals obtained at the farm-houses on the road, and returns home in time for his supper with the appetite of a giant and with every bone...
...take into consideration the vast difference in the state of social feeling of America and that of other countries. Here every man, no matter how poor, looks upon himself as having equal chances with his neighbor for social position or political honor. This is doubly impressed upon his mind by his life in public schools, and finally becomes a very part of himself. He is taught to believe that the only requisite to success is education, and that in this country there is no such thing as being to the manner born. This feeling of personal independence...