Word: mindful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doubt comes as to what God's will for us is. We have not the signs and the voices; we can use our common - sense. the advice of our friends, the inspirations of books, and the teachings of experience. When a man has once made up his mind as to his life and career after mature deliberation, he will do better not to alter that decision, Let him make sure, however, of one thing. - that he cast his lot in with the progressive nations. If he decide that other lands need his work, let him go to China, Japan...
...others, to be strictly adhered to. In the cases of the graduate and professional schools, where there is no way of learning of a case as soon as it appears, it is particularly desirable and even necessary that the precautions suggested by the Regent should be kept in mind and followed. Harvard has long been fortunate in the general health which her students enjoy. There is no reason to doubt that this prosperity will continue, but it is only right that every one should remember what is due his neighbors and act accordingly...
...much of an attempt after the experience they had just undergone and only recently has the plan matured. It is, in a way, a stupendous undertaking. The average person can little realize the difficulties which are ever presenting themselves. The point which has constantly to be kept in mind is to give as exact a reproduction of the play as possible, at the same time to make it accord with the culture of to-day. In the music, particularly, it is very hard to reconcile the many difficulties. A strict following of the old forms would hardly pass with...
...coaching system in practice at New Haven, and I fail to see any system better than that employed at Yale. While Mr. Cook makes no claim to originality he has nevertheless improved on the English stroke, which he introduced in this country several years ago. To my mind the Yale oarsmen pay a trifle more attention to form than is observed at Oxford, and I see a marked improvement in the recovery, something very essential in crew rowing...
...seen nothing on the other side of the water that would lead me to believe that our boats are in any way inferior to those on the Thames. The rigging of eight-oared boats in both countries is radically different, but there is not the slightest doubt in my mind but we are many years ahead of the Brittishers in this respect. To begin with, the Oxford and Cambridge crews do not row with their seats over the keels as our crews do but the men are seated much the same as in Boston working boats, the starboard and port...