Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Derangement of mind resulting from "an attempt to master the classics," is the cause assigned for the recent suicide of a young lady of Wilkesbarre...
...Matthew Arnold has been recently called "a modernized Lucian, with better manners, more religion, and a higher mind...
...wonder that today the problem sems no nearer solution at Harvard than it did when its discussion was first started an untold number of years ago. Every year condemnation of the system grows fiercer and more general Not only students, but professors of the most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton, Professor Child, and Professor White, besides many others have particularly expressed the most positive opinions on the subject. And as yet so far as we know no more has been done either towards reform or towards an abolition of the system...
...cold weather approaches and the out-door world offers fewer and fewer attractions, we wish to submit a little advice to eighty-seven in particular and to the college in general that will be borne in mind all through the long winter and for that matter all through college. Get into the habit of using the library in a thoughtful, systematic, healthful way. It is comparatively easy to form habits that do not bring one into contact with books and especial care should be taken to correct this fault at the outset. Some special courses of reading as fiction...
...SATURDAY.History and Methods of Classical Study. Prof. Allen. Sever 18. 11 A. M. These lectures, to be given on Saturdays during the first half-year, 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...