Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was rather a small meeting in Holden, but as all the men present were of the same mind, the meeting went off as smoothly as possible. The following officers were elected without opposition: president, F. Remington, '87; vice-president, G. S. Mumford, '87; secretary, J. Walter Wood, jr., '88; and treasurer, W. S. Allen, '87. There being no more business before the house, on a motion of Mr. Brooks, '87, the meeting adjourned...
...most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away on freshened pinion, and to pour forth lavishly the riches of his well-fraught mind...
...lamentable fact that if one goes to a lecture, to a convention - or even to church - he is sure to hear a speaker who violates every law of nature in trying to tell you what he thinks. The case is indeed rare when the mind of the bearer is not fastened on some mannerism of the speaker, to the exclusion of the ideas he would make known. These mannerisms may be in the voice or in the action. The former is sepulchral and monotonous or it is unpleasantly nasal, and the thought which the voice should convey...
...support. With a new list of able and hard working officers for the athletic association, no effort should be lost to surpass even the victory of last year. The cup belongs here and here it shall return, let who will contest such a result. With such a determination in mind success is assured...
...other extreme and fail to learn till their course is completed, how greatly they stand in need of just such courses as the old curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner...