Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strong that so long as there are other opportunities for athletic training, the present game should be given up. However one may disagree with the President, it cannot be denied that his attitude is a legitimate one and although on some points, such as "the state of mind of the spectators at a hard fought football match," he seems to be ignorant of the actual facts, there is throughout his remarks on the subject a sincerity which adds greatly to their force...
...there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that we are taking the Nation too seriously, and that the expressions we quote are acknowledged hyperpolae, assumed for rhetorical effect. Admitting that, we cannot see that there is any increase of dignity...
...three 'immortals' whose names are inscribed on the drum of the dome of the new House of Representatives in Boston a text for emphasizing the influence of college-bred men, are wholesome reading, and seem to have been much commented on in college journals. They have called to my mind an investigation made some years ago to ascertain what proportion of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the framers of the Constitution were college-bred...
President Eliot's remarks on athletics have been severely criticised at Yale. In an interview published in yesterday's Journal, Professor Richards, a member of the Yale faculty, is quoted as saying that President Eliot is not well informed on football matters and that he fixes his mind on the evils of athletics and does not consider their beneficial side...
...Gruener, who furnished this translation, thinks he sees a political motive in this fiction, and is of the opinion that the papers printing such reports were misled by those who sought thus to influence the popular mind against the introduction of American and English athletic sports, which the Emperor favors...