Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes of Russians are able to speak two or more languages in addition to their own this arises from the manner of their training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study of Latin is far more difficult to the Russian mind than the study of Greek; the literary Russian must necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack of power of expression than any other special reason. The boys of the higher classes enter the gymnasia...
...people are better citizens and better men and women for possessing this higher culture, and says in reply to his question: "Now it must be admitted that a college can do harm and that culture may be a bad thing. Not a true college or a noble culture, mind you. But it has become an axiom among philosophers that the finer a thing is the more vile is its corruption. So then if culture be but a carping and inactive criticism, in the nature of a chronic and irremediable disease that sees the world only through jaundiced eyes...
...claims that since the school belongs to a great public institution, it ought not to do what a private speculative affair like the London School has done, namely, adopt this plan of subscriptions. He states in this connection that "A question which has been and still is troubling the minds of the thinking members of the veterinary profession is; "What purpose had Harvard in establishing a Veterinary Department in connection with the Medical School?" Was it to educate young men to become credible members of a profession which should rank as high as human medicine in the public mind...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...
During the vacation Conway R. Brown, of the freshman class, while laboring under temporary aberration of the mind, shot himself dead at the house of a friend whom he was visiting in Providence. The deceased was a son of Henry W. Brown of Worcester. He traveled for several years in Europe and was an attendant at the German schools, but prepared for college at Exeter Academy. He was a bright and promising young man, universally liked, and his early death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends and class-mates...