Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest perplexity over this question. Many feel that their qualifications for either of two professions are about equal. One day they think they will choose one; the next day, perhaps, they are thinking very favorably of the other. To men in this troublesome and really dangerous state of mind, a few words of advice would be most acceptable. We say "dangerous state of mind" because the chances are even that after entering one profession the man will always feel that he should have entered the other. Therefore he has only a half interest in his work, and in a short...
...examination time; how many useful and terse things he has found in them that no number of text or reference books ever gave him! When boys are at school they prepare their lessons and go to the recitations and recite what they have learned. When a mind is very young, that system is necessary to increase the organ of memory and give the boy confidence; but when that mind is nearing the close of its scholastic cultivation it should know how to do its own work; what it needs then is knowledge, and here at Cambridge the school system should...
...There are certain necessities in connection with university work which it is well enough to bear in mind; and the first of all necessities in the university, as in the heavens above us, is order. Order has been said to be Heaven's first law, and certainly it is the first law of a good university. There are two ways of securing good order in a university. One is what may be called the old way of tyranny, of an absolute government, of a government by the proclamation to the students of a code of rules declaring precisely the things...
...Monday Night," - whose features are, to say the least, a disgrace to every one concerned in them. Apart from the fact that most of the punches are obtained by threats, - a thing which would be instantly resented anywhere else, - the circumstances attendant upon them are apt to fill the mind of the average spectator with profound disgust. I am not a member of the H. T. A. L., but I believe I voice the sentiments of a large number of my class in hoping that these scenes may be this year suppressed by the united efforts...
...following is from the Yale Courant of June 6th: "The Harvard DAILY CRIMSON has lately published an editorial speaking of a 'wail' or a 'howl' (we have mislaid the paper and the exact word escape us) which in its mind has arisen from its 'sister college in New Haven,' about the listlessness, over-confidence, and general demoralization of the Yale crew. And the CRIMSON warns the Harvard crew against putting any faith in such 'wails.' Moreover, the CRIMSON cites as an instance of such a wail's proving only a 'gag,' the articles which appeared in the Yale papers last...