Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty...
...paper is made, and the Formal Cause is the paper-mill. So far we have kept in the region of pure optimism. "And now here comes" the trouble. The Efficient Cause is the one who makes out the examination-paper, and the Final Cause is the intention in his mind, a priori, to condition the examined, while the condition itself is the Lost Cause, but does not take effect until it receives the stamp of the Regulative Faculty...
...heart and mind, still constant...
...suit the youthful student mind...
...system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency, and the point to be considered is whether the time gained in instruction compensates the student for its loss in review. In other words, have not the Faculty gone from one extreme to another...