Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...more pleasing to my mind...
...comparing these records, the reader should bear in mind that the Harvards, although they suffered the most defeats, played with much stronger nines than Yale...
...hair stood on end. I had to reply, and so misinterpreted her. "I wish," said I, "you'd finished off Homer before I began him. I burnt my copy, but to attack the old man himself was more than any but a feminine mind would have dared. Did you hang him in effigy? That might be called going it on a bust...
...means." And I searched my mind for one. "Was n't the race glorious?" I began...