Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What to do with and how to educate the Indian race is a question which presents itself to the mind of every thinking man who is at all interested in the political problems before the country to-day. A few young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during...
...boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing...
...that Captain Holden deserves the highest credit which an athletic captain can receive, for the energy he has displayed and which has resulted in putting foot-ball at Harvard upon a scientific basis. Material has never been wanting here. All that was needed was perseverance and some mind that could plan. This has been found and no longer can the championship in foot-ball be considered without any mention of Harvard...
Porter, half-back, fumbles badly. Does not keep his mind on the game, and thus misses many of his most valuable chances. Tackles well...
...Matthew Arnold Impressed Me," we have a glowing and well-written account of the effect of the English poet's work on a plastic mind. The personality of the author is thrust for ward rather more than propriety or good taste would allow in an article of this kind. Without wishing to be cynical, I find considerable presumption in its spirit. The talents of the writer give promise for a very fair future, but let him delay the publication of his autobiography until the world may fairly be assumed to be more anxious...