Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of an elevated railroad between Boston and Cambridge, which in now so widely attracting the public mind, is of the greatest importance to the university and Cambridge at large. The great argument in favor of the elevated road is that it would immensely reduce the amount of time now spent in travelling by the horse railways. Another consequence of the proposed change would be the necessary reduction of the present exorbitant rates demanded for rooms, and Harvard would cease to be, as it is, notorious for the high prices which its students are compelled to pay for rent...
...study here in the academy have been materially advanced and so arranged that in the senior year there is now quite a margin for optionals. Our faculty are not accustomed to do anything without mature deliberation, yet endeavor to be always abreast of the times; and to our mind these changes have been made largely in the interest of the Harvard element, or in pursuance of the Harvard spirit. They certainly are not in accordance with the traditional Yale policy...
...student should allow the years of his college life to pass without an increase of manly physical vigor. He should graduate, proud of his physique as well as of his mental attainments. His future success depends upon both these factors, and only narrowness of mind or of training is shown in the neglect of either. Whoever thinks to magnify his intellect by neglecting or belittling his body, is as wise as he who expects fruit without vines...
...elsewhere in the case of that gymnasium lamp and also the lamp at Memorial. To return from the theatre or a call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body, for that matter, as the latter often comes in contact with the walls and balustrades. Bad as this custom is under ordinary circumstances, how much worse it would be in cases of fire or even of sudden illness during the night. The expense would be small...
...chapel, where Barnwell and Emerson took part on valedictory exercises before all the scholars and a number of ladies. They were rather poor, and did but little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the library." In one of his essays...