Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...happiness, which, if not equivalent to, is at least entirely dependent on, success. The attainment of some final object, whatever it is, is thus the great requisite in his life; and, success being insured, the higher the object he seeks, the greater his happiness, it being always kept in mind that no failure is allowed, unless he would feel that he has lived in vain. The moral is not far to seek; rid yourself, as far as possible, of all uneasy desires for what is beyond your reach, and direct all your endeavors towards some goal...
...contemplation of virtue," which our author affects so greatly to despise? "Affects," I say, for he does not believe the barren creed he professes; he holds to a higher standard for life than he admits; he betrays himself when he speaks of "Thackeray's Warrington, - to our mind, in spite of his failure, the noblest man in English fiction...
...fifth anniversary of President Eliot's inauguration into the high office whose duties he has so faithfully discharged and whose honors he has so modestly borne. For a half-decade the advancing prosperity of our University has borne witness to his unflagging zeal and thorough liberality of mind; and were we called upon to-day to speak more especially of our President's fitness for his present position, we could but repeat the words of Ex-Governor Clifford at the inauguration...
...level with men with whom we would not care to associate. For a long time professional trainers were considered indispensable to the crew, but they have been superseded, and with good results. Why cannot the same thing be done in base-ball matters? It must be borne in mind that the evil effects, if any, of this custom would not affect us so nearly as the reputation of the College in the country at large...
...among the modern ways of studying and regarding the world, the soul feels itself a stranger. Some, to remedy this, make thought a property of matte; others, matter but a mode of force or will; both parties fail in their end, because the opposites to be harmonized are not mind and matter, but the "wholes amid which alone the spirit feels at home, and the atoms or points with which science has to do." It is only by an honest synthesis in our minds of the results of the analysis of science that we can reach the glory...