Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Great promise lies in the recognition of the fact that all training must have a physiological basis in order to insure a sound body as well as a healthy mind. The conservation of health means the utilization of the gymnasium and the prescription of physical exercise which shall contribute to health and strength. The time is coming when we will pay experts to keep us well as we now pay physicians to make us well. There is nothing in the law of intellectual activity that need obstruct perfect health. Higher education should conserve good health...
...demonstrated that the mind grows by activity; but there is alimit to mental exertion. Over-mental strain is a sin against the laws of health...
Every individual fellow owes a debt of gratitude to a man who has the qualities of mind and body to make the team and who plays for Harvard...
...reflects honor on us all and holds the interests of all of us in his hands. Therefore he has no right to be satisfied with merely making the eleven. He has won great honor, but he must make up his mind to do his best, to strain every nerve for the team. No man who is one of Harvard's representatives and who fails to do his duty, should be lightly pardoned by his fellows...
...finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses of English scenery are many and charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed. The letters of Flaubert note in the main artistic procedure and the painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits...