Word: minded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their highest physical and mental development. We know, many of us by experience, that from the freshman year the desire not to disappoint the hopes of parents and friends in this particular leads to worse than useless worry and anxiety, and interferes seriously with that quiet of nerve and mind essential to the best mental work...
...first part of an essay entitled "The True Basis for the Science of Mind and Study of Character," by F. A. Hyde, '81, will appear in the July number of the Phrenological Journal...
...college are due to those kindly and enterprising persons who are thoughtful enough to provide it with light and cheerful amusement every evening. When one has toiled over a hard examination in the morning, when one has spent the hot afternoon in a wearing grind, when the mind has been afflicted with these evils and the body with Memorial hash, when, despite all this, one settles down for some more hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude of all who have...
...peculiarly to the fraternity man. The desire for social enjoyment is also met in many cases by the combining of fellows of like tastes and pursuits in little groups, musical clubs, German clubs, Shakespeare clubs and numerous other like organizations suggested by the social impulse of the student mind...
...instructor of a certain classical course stated at the beginning of the year that the examinations would be entirely at sight. Shortly before the examination he announced that he had changed his mind, and that the section must be well prepared for examination upon all the past work of the year. Now, clearly, any instructor has a perfect right to examine his section as he pleases, but the adoption of the disingenuous course of action we have described is as unfair to the popularity and good repute, which the instructor we refer to enjoys, as it is to those...