Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind the wind, Mira. What do we care? I hardly think the storm will carry us away, if the tide be ever so high...
...this happened two years ago. But tonight, as I hear again the waves upon the beach, I cannot drive the thoughts of that time from my mind. And I hold a bit of blue ribbon in my fingers; and, as I look, I cannot keep back the tears. "If I should not see you then, you would not forget me?" I have not forgotten, Mira...
...that a spirit of reverence pervade the hearers. Undue noise in entering the chapel, conversation of any kind in the seats, the unnecessary coughing which ofttimes makes itself conspicuous - all these are breaches of good taste and good breeding which are designed to create an ill impression in the mind of a beholder. Nor ought any one educated in a Christian land fail to wait reverently to the close of the benediction and the responsive amen without motion toward departure. Nothing short of this becomes a house dedicated to the worship...
...whole College. The upper classes would indeed have a right to insist upon the non-recurrence again of the outrageous behavior that has heretofore signalized these occasions. But we believe rather in trusting to '85's sense of what is decent and just. Let her only have strength of mind enough to take the initiative in foregoing this discreditable practice of former Freshman classes, and she will commence her career by gaining the respect and admiration of the whole College, and establish a line of conduct which future classes will not be slow to follow...
...well-established fact that the human mind, as well as the human body, does its best work at regular intervals. If study, recitation, and recreation can be located at the same hour day after day, both mind and body become accustomed to the routine and labor almost of themselves at their wonted time. To three-hour or even two-hour courses one readily becomes accustomed, but it is difficult to get in harmony with a course which comes once in seven days, at an hour of its own, and is then dismissed from the thoughts for another week. The continuity...