Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More than 150 years ago a silly young Scotsman came to London. The two salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author...
...there can be no definite assumption as to over population in the college. The optimistic and benevolently humanitarian view is that such is not the case and that opportunities for further education, no matter how general or wasteful, are never to be closed to any class or type of mind. The other view is more depressing and, at present, more popular with educational leaders. It would have been interesting and even informative to have secured. President Angell's attitude What he has offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned...
...office, is attested by the comparative paucity of errors. It is not at all unusual in other institutions, whose systems are more onerous, for a person to wait as long to rectify a mistake as to make one. Here a student may be as much subject to changes of mind but he can console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether or not he will like a certain course or, if he has listed his courses the previous spring, whether he still chooses to take the same ones. The welter...
Everywhere history is made to move in a living atmosphere, for that is the highest excellence of Miss Gather's writing, her mastery of intangibles. Just as the maturity of her mind has led her, in character-drawing, beyond the emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried...
...attention upon the flowers which might else blush unseen in the "Announcement of Courses of Instruction" and waste their perfume upon a few. But being younger, it is more than likely that he will wander farther afield seeking violets rather than daisies. Nor will he keep too well in mind the strict definition of a student. More often than occasionally he will merely draw a road map to the mine where the gold may be gathered, nor stop to explain the intricacies of its composition. Only at moments of particular timeliness or times of particular moment will he delve more...