Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thursday, March 31, there will be given in our beloved Boylston Hall a lecture on "Some Examples of Greek Art," by Mr. Louis D-er, illustrated by the stereopticon, - always bearing in mind that it is the lecture which is illustrated, and not the lecturer...
...that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story we accept the situation: there is nothing to get hold of. How can we hope to know a character that never existed in the author's mind as a human, breathing creature...
...perfectly competent to give an elaborate and exact account of the natural history of the gopher, Apollinaris Water, and Freshmen. But this isn't all. If this chaos of uncertainty, this boiling, seething torrent of confusion, this benumbing consciousness of the unreality of the existent, took possession of my mind only while actually at the lectures and readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe and heal my burning, frenzied, demon-haunted intellect. But there is a fate upon me. A brooding curse from Ate sits within my mind, driving me on and ever exacting the penalty...
...France could be made still cheaper and with greater comforts. If the steamer landed at Havre, a tour through Normandy and Brittany could be made with no railway expense at all. Even if some of the poorer students feel that they cannot afford $250, let them bear in mind that $250 enables a great deal of solid comfort, and that a second-cabin passage, - which to a good sailor is comfortable enough, - with extra care of the pennies on shore, may bring the cost of the whole trip down to less than $200. Then there are the increased facilities...
...victims of circumstances, but we must allow the possibility of their labor having been misapplied, and do our best to find out how it could have been applied better. In thus condemning too enthusiastic praise, we do not in any way favor the opposite extreme, discouragement being to our mind quite as undesirable; but if, in talking to and of our teams, we should be willing to acknowledge their short comings when they exist, and not to give their existing good points more praise than they deserve, it seems to us we should be adopting the right method...