Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discipline which study alone can give. All buying and selling to get gain is debasing in its tendency, and especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often the case that nothing but a bank account distinguishes the capitalist from the socialist. Justus Schwab says, "Shoot the rich...
...ears that this resolution was passed to satisfy Princeton, who had no similar organizations to practice with. This then, is one of those delightful compromises that are so pleasant to read about. The fourth resolution in regard to a faculty committee, is harmless padding. The committee would probably carefully mind its own business and let the students alone. The fifth resolution, in regard to no man engaging in sports more than four years, is some more padding. The conference committee wanted to make a show of having done something and resorted to that familiar trick of newspaper men of filling...
...raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge whatever. There are, of course, minds which are capable of making more progress in various directions than other minds in a single direction, but I think it can hardly be disputed that the same mind will obtain a more superficial knowledge when directed to many diverse subjects than when concentrated upon one only. It was this distinction between...
...done by government, by the recognition that in colleges there are laws and laws are to be obeyed. So long as I remain where I am I propose that students shall cultivate habits of regularity and attention. I do not believe there is any education or discipline of mind in a student's staying away from his duty a week or a month and them cramming for his examination. And yet the drift of college discipline today is in that direction. But the accumulation of knowledge will come easier thorough discipline...
...SATURDAY.History and Methods of Classical Study. Prof. Allen. Sever 14, 11 A. M. These lectures, to be given on Saturdays, are intended for the guidance of those who have in mind a somewhat extended course of study in Classics. Any student who is taking courses in Greek or Latin is at liberty to attend them...