Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drinks. After dwelling upon the injurious effects of alcohol upon the heart, and so on the whole organism, the desirability of "no-license" was advocated, for it must be wrong to license the sale of any commodity which produces decay of the body and misery to the mind...
Considerable amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected...
...acknowledge a thrill of delight in listening to a man who has really fought the Apaches, who knows what it is to be on the warpath and who is not merely a newspaper hero. Although the Cambridge Indian Rights Association, perhaps, did not have Harvard students particularly in mind when Sanders Theatre was selected as the place for the meeting, we assure the association that Harvard appreciated the opportunity to hear Gen. Crook. We hope that other Cambridge societies may follow this example in inviting other speakers to Sanders Theatre...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
...thrown on the effect which a great political event has on a small community or on an individual living in it. In this way the following letter written by a Harvard student on "Sept'br ye 23d 1777" well portrays some of the effects of the Revolution on his mind and on the college community at large. He complains bitterly of the rise of prices. After a very short "family" sentence he goes on to say: "Wood is but twenty dollars pr. cord, the corporation meet to-morrow to determine upon a vacation, it is supposed that we shall...