Word: mindful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reaction against this seems to have set in. It is now asked of what is the child and youth capable. As the mind develops, it is to be given just that which fits its immediate capacity. Educational training is to be adjusted to each stage of the individual's growth, and not simply to a supposed capacity at one stage...
...goes with a rush and the man who cannot adapt himself, at a minute's notice to any combination of circumstances falls out of the race. If a man knows men, knows their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably never have succeeded any better in business. True, the college...
...moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting is told. If this law is not strictly observed, and if the object which is second or third in importance is made in the greatest contrast of color, the purpose of the painter is defeated, and the mind of the observer receives a false impression of the meaning intended to be conveyed...
First of all American illustrators stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...sign of illness. The common beginning symptoms of these various diseases are, fever (with or without chills, nausea, vomiting and headache), sor throat, coryza (head cold), and a feeling of depression or weakness. Inasmuch as these are common symptoms in simple colds, etc., it is well to bear in mind that each one of these cases must be considered as potentially scarlet fever, measels, etc., during the epidemics of these diseases, and that students should not expose themselves and their friends by flocking to the rooms of those who have such symptoms. It is better for students to get professional...