Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain paper, published early last October, spoke editorially as follows: "The note of preparation has sounded busily at Harvard, and it will not be long before the students are deep in their studies. Both mind and body will soon be engaged, the former in the intellectual and the latter in the physical. It is but natural to expect that the more intellectual arts and sciences will be absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot...
...remarks in the above are exceedingly suggestive. There are at least two elements in Harvard life, one corresponding to the mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to be "bigger" men than the scholars, who very generally receive the hardly complimentary title of "grinds." It is truly said, "local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind;" but it is a mistake to suppose that Harvard men have no pride in intellectual attainments...
...from the Princetonian's report of the Yale Princeton game, and enlivens these clippings with characteristic comments. We reprint in another column one of the News' comments, and think that it will be enough to convey to Harvard readers the general feeling that just at present pervades the Yale mind. That the enthusiasm which the Princetonian naturally displayed in its report, should be extremely unpleasant to Yale readers, is hardly surprising. While we do not say that the Princetonian showed perfect taste in its report of the game, yet we feel that whatever poor taste it may have shown...
...Hale in a recent discussion of the public school system, advanced a theory of education which would involve as its purpose continued self-education after the years of schooling. It is true that this theory ought fundamentally to occupy the minds of our educators, but where such a theory, if rigidly carried into practice in the common school system might from circumstances prove inefficient, it assumes an enlarged significance when applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting...
...either business or professional life than energy and tenacity of purpose; and success in college life depends mainly on the same thing. The student who comes to college determined to make the most of his opportunities, to let none of his powers lie idle, and to cultivate both mind and body to the greatest possible extent, succeeds in his work if he keeps his purpose clearly in view; and is very likely to fail if he does not. Men of natural ability often come to surpass their more talented class-mates because they are aiming at some definite object, they...