Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...they cast a solid vote they would make so formidable an opposition that the nominating bodies would have to regard their opinion. Rampant democrats may cry out that this is unfair, but they should remember that the societies differ widely in their scope, and that any student whose mind and whose manners fit him for admission to any one of them can obtain it by the exercise of a little tact. If in his Senior year he has failed to do so, he must blame himself for his position...
...cramming for examinations now being done universally calls to mind a suggestion we have often made, that a sufficient opportunity should be given us to review the work of a half-year before we are examined upon it. There can be no doubt that every real student feels the necessity of reviewing his work carefully before an examination, and that the loafer must do so to save himself from a condition. Some sort of a review is made at present by every one, but few have time to do the work on every subject as it should be done...
...opinion active measures should be taken at once to prevent such fearful results, and results even more to be feared. "In man there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them; why then attend to anything else? It is a waste of time to take three hours a day from this short life of ours and devote them to filling our stomachs with food; to occupy precious moments (when we might be storing our minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which...
...Advocate intends to correct. May I, without presumption, urge you also to join heartily in the good work? The necessity for action is only too evident when we reflect that by following our base example, and letting the ignoble body attain the ascendency over the glorious mind, hundreds will be doomed to utter darkness. Your contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest that the first steps to be taken would...
...wind strikes through me, bringing to my mind...