Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think of during the coming recess. It may have been settled technically at their last meeting, but it has not been settled decisively, we hope - for the action of the class was scarcely more than a mere evasion of the real question. It is well to bear in mind that the old adage of a "stitch in time saves nine" is as true as ever it was, and the feeling of distrust which is prevalent at Yale, if not done away with at once, will be a disagreeable factor in all our athletic relations with that college for the future...
...attempt is being made to get Montague, Bishop's rival mind reader, to give a performance in Princeton...
...Bishop's exhibitions of mind reading have aroused great interest in the subject among the professors and students of Princeton...
...incoming class finds himself in receipt of an invitation from the venerable president to attend a reception at his residence. Excitement ensues; wardrobes are ransacked and set in order; lessons are hastily read, or pushed aside; visions of bright forms and thoughts of conquest flit through the undergraduate mind; upper-classmen are quizzed as to the probabilities of the evening, social, and even gastronomical. At the appointed time, a long train of students file into the president's library, and are warmly received by that gentleman, his wife, various members of the faculty, and a large corps of ladies from...
...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...