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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It was with much pleasure that I noticed in your editorial of last Saturday entitled Oh, Sugar!" the laudable success achieved by the "descendants of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona'" in abolishing seventy-five percent of the profanity in their city. I fully agree with your statements that "such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/10/1922 | See Source »

Such heroics should not pass unnoticed. Since neither the Y. M. C. A. nor the W. C. T. U. have volunteered assistance, a movement may be set on foot to form a new College association. All sober-minded Harvard men will welcome this possibility. The organization could be named, not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OH, SUGAR! | 11/4/1922 | See Source »

The supposedly serious-minded student, who hopes for a degree with distinction, is sentenced to years of hard labor on the rock-pile of the Middle Ages, before he can turn his energies to the building of his house. Even then he has only the heavy timber of the 18th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PARABLE REVERSED | 11/1/1922 | See Source »

The great English journalist, Frederic Harrison, was congratulated on his 90th birthday last year as "living among the third generation of his contemporaries." Men often live to be well over ninety; but it is a very rare thing to find a man so active, so vigorous, and so young-minded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTEMPORARIES | 10/18/1922 | See Source »

It is easy to account for the Freshman's apathy toward a chapel service. Perhaps he has come from a "prep" school where daily chapel, twice on Sunday, is an irksome compulsion; perhaps from a home where the parental regulation was equally stringent; or again his previous church affiliations may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED | 10/6/1922 | See Source »

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