Word: minding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...criticise," while Mr. Freshworthy's theme is sniffed at by somebody else, Mr. Crewman receives back his theme heavily scored and underscored with marginal notes of "wretched grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot...
...they can hardly be expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will over-balance, in the mind of every fair minded lover of base-ball, any momentary impulse of joy which may spring up at the thought of our increased chances for a victorious season...
These benches are perhaps a survival of the cross benches of the English House of Commons; but it should be borne in mind that the occupants of these leave them in case of a division of the House...
...Annual Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration...
...sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element thoughts and considerations of great thinking men who talk...