Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have often been on the point of feeling at the sight of such smiling landscapes in reality. But at the same time you are fully aware that your pleasure was never quite this; there was always in your experience something that interfered, and which alone an artist's mind can detect and retain. This valley is by some, for unknown reasons, believed to be where Albert Durer, senior, was born; the village accordingly is named Eytas...
...professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving...
...still my mind the blanker grew...
...addition to his personal knowledge; for no education, however rich in book lore, is complete without a knowledge of the world; and where can it be better studied? From his lookout all is unfavorable, and humanity assumes a dimension in perfect keeping with the diminutive measure applied by his mind, cramped from being bound within itself. How much such a result is to be dreaded by any one whose professed object is the acquisition of a liberal education, need not further be indicated; for the narrow-mindedness which prevents one from taking an extended view of the necessary conditions...
Still we should keep in mind our true position, lest by being free from care while in college we should forget that success in after-life depends upon self-reliance, and that whatever is accomplished will be accomplished independently of others...