Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young writers of today should not allow their emotions to run away with them," he stated in a meeting of Advocate candidates last night in the Advocate building, previous to the interview. "Authors setting out in the field of literature should call to mind the fact that their subject is a small matter compared to the world about...
...Hopkins pronounced the following indictment of the American college press: "There, in place of any frequent discussion of what undergraduates might do to help their respective colleges, we find the tiresome reiteration of what the colleges ought to do for the undergraduate. Fortunately, these utterances do not represent the mind of the undergraduate bodies...
...more inspirational teaching; rarely has a suggestion been offered as to how the student might improve himself or contribute, except through criticism, to the improvement of his college. But it is more than doubtful if editors and other writers' are alone at fault in this respect. The ordinary undergraduate mind, if it considers education at all, is no less insistent that more and more be done for its benefit. The culpability of the undergraduate critic is greater than that of any other undergraduate only as the power of printers' ink is greater than that of a chance remark...
This weakness in fundamentals is not the result of a warping of sound principles. The fault lies further back, in the groundwork of mind training. Social and economic environment, primary and secondary school criteria are contributing factors. Parents want their children to be educated, but they themselves have no true understanding of education. The best they can do is thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful...
...wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique...