Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author expresses his attitude toward literary criticism as follows: "No one can be more keenly aware than I how parlous a task it is to attempt systematic criticism of the present or near past in literature; but if we are to wait until the world has made up its mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development of taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while to take Grimm's words to heart...
...should be borne in mind that the results of the vote will be published throughout the country, and, as expressing the political sentiment of Harvard University, will have some influence with voters. It is therefore hoped that every member of the University will vote and make the expression of the University's opinion as complete as possible...
Again we strongly urge every student in the University to bear in mind the few regulations that have been made concerning a celebration in case of a victory over Princeton today. There must be absolutely no use of fire-arms or explosives of any kind. This is the main thing to remember, and, as we said yesterday, every man should feel it his duty to aid the committee in promptly suppressing any demonstration of the wrong kind of enthusiasm. If student opinion is strongly expressed against this sort of thing there will certainly be no trouble tonight in case...
Townsend, at 2, is rowing in just the same form as when he left Cambridge last week. He should improve more than he does, nevertheless, and he rows as if his mind was not on his work as much as it should...
...primary aim of all our great institutions is not to prepare a man to fight the battle of life, and come out well endowed with this world's goods, but to cultivate the mind and raise the plane of civilization. A great university stands for truth. Here the scholar is met who has a real quest in life, from which he will turn for nothing. The scholar is the man who buys the truth and sells it not. No price is too great if only the truth is obtained, and no reward is asked...