Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit is hostile to art and that the tyranny of science drives poetry out of existence. But poetry is based on realism, and the poet should take the cold facts of science and humanize them. Human sentiment should be substituted for the critical verse now in vogue. The human mind has in this century again burst its bonds, as it did just before the Renaissance. It cannot be possible that the "almighty dollar" is to be the only issue from this wonderful new world. Positive thought must be substituted for negative, and it may be that a new poetic energy...
...recorded cases the ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear at a distance. An effort has been made to explain the apparitions by "telepathy," which may be defined as the ability of one mind to impress another without the use of the usual organs of sense. Another name for this is "thought transference." In all cases of visions four points are to be noted: the state of the mind of the person who sees, the condition of the person who is seen...
...drunk the cup of self-indulgence to its dregs; he had been a mockery of himself, but his true self had at length returned. Few of us have ever been in the condition of the prodigal, but in every serious life there comes a similar transition. Our minds may be moving along in a purposeless way, doing its tasks, acquiring and forgetting, when, some day, we may be awakened by a great thought or by some terrible message. Then the tasks of the mind take on a new meaning; the soul weakens to itself. This is the greatest experience...
...past two years the stroke of the crew, has flatly refused to handle an oar this year; but the chances of his rowing are thought by those who ought to know to be more than even. The great stroke made the same statement last year, but changed his mind at the last moment, and though he had comparatively little training in comparison with the rest of the men, he showed no lack of form in the race and pulled a beautiful stroke. If he persists in his refusal to row, Cross, '88, will probably stroke the crew. Cross...
...freshman rushed back with redoubled forces and shouts of "Break it! Fire plug!" At this juncture one of the college reporters came upon the scene, and fired with noble frenzy he saw in his mind's eye the faculty dancing about, and one of them just escaping, by the skin of his teeth, from being placed in the bowl. Meanwhile the fire-plug had been gained, and ominous thuds began to tell of the severe ordeal the bowl was undergoing. Incensed, however, at being abused in such a way the fire-plug suddenly began to splutter and spurt...