Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaching, then, may be the effects of the absence of Radcliffe undergraduates from the announced case of "Hassan" is all too easily imaginable. Brattle Hall, owning no Ethiopian heaven but merely a prim balcony, had been pictured in the happy mind of the Harvard undergraduate as being itself for one exotic night a Mohammedan heaven, with all joys of the East offered for the vicarious happiness of the onlooker. The refreshing lotus was poised a moment at the mouth f the weary student, only to be snatched away even as his lips parted. For in the Cambridge Koran...
...removed nor even the spirit of that white, cold and immovable bust that gazes so silent and steadfastly out through the halls of the Fogg, far out into what one knows not, will move the Vagabond to pursue his search of the things which one rendered unto the mind. In fact, about the only thing which will move him is the 1 o'clock to New York, and he advises all his readers to let this beneficent influence effect them...
This annual concentration meeting is an essential and very valuable preliminary to the process of picking future fields of study which will engross the Freshman mind for the next month. But it is only a preliminary. Consultations, advice, decisions, reconsiderations, and more decisions will follow each other in rapid succession until five o'clock on May 2 and the threat of a five dollar fine finally bring the doubtful to a decision...
...interesting to note that most of the decrease has come in the four weeks of the Reading Period and Examination Period when academic pressure has driven the students across the quadrangle to the Library instead. In estimating religious tendencies at Harvard it must, however, be borne in mind that a large number of the students prefer to establish themselves in one or another of the many churches in the vicinity, or are engaged in some other religious activities Sunday morning. Of course these students do not swell the ranks of the chapel-goers...
...prosperous people of the world who have obtained positions of prominence without benefit of college have always been scornful of the value of education. In the popular mind, students spend their days in a kind of lotus-eating existence devoted to the pleasures and dissipations of the campus, with an occasional hour or so devoted to study just before examinations. Without any facts or figures to prove the contrary students have had to bear the stigma in silence. Their justification has been attempted by the University of idaho, and despite the complications which the entertainments of a nearby city produce...