Word: minded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...While the Shows went on" is a good piece of work. The interest is well sustained not withstanding the length and unchanging form of the story. "He" as the hero is designated, suggests somehow the great Van Bibber and the sketch in its motive brings to mind "A Walk up the Avenue" by Richard Harding Davis. The verse of the number is neither extensive nor remarkable; the "Song; after the manner of An Old Poet" deserves to be mentioned however...
...society had adapted itself to the conditions of feudalism. This had refinement, amorous mind, and poetical instinct, who became the first troubadour. It is to these troubadours, that all morals and all art of the present day owe a great debt...
...game on Saturday was as complete an anti-climax to the work of the eleven against the Chicago Athletic Club, as one could very well imagine. To be sure the game was won, but when one reviews in his mind the general drift of the play, he finds it hard to explain why Amherst did not keep on scoring and win the game. The only possible reason that such did not happen was owing to Harvard's better endurance and the individual work of a few men. Amherst's defensive work was stronger than Harvard's, their aggressive play...
...class room and at lectures, and while some of our large halls are poorly arranged for ventilation, it seems as if better arrangements could be made for the comfort of such a large audience as was present last night. This lack of fresh air deadens the sensibilities of the mind as well as of the body and small matter as it may seem it can and should be remedied...
...house. In the parable there is an obvious object lesson. There are three things necessary for the formation of a bit of pottery, the clay, the wheel and the potter's hand. So it is in the formation of a human being; there is the body and the mind corresponding to the clay, experience, environment, corresponding to the wheel, God, back of all the work, corresponding to the potter...