Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...surrounding peoples as a nation whose one possession was a faith in God and a true religion. A nation or a man that has not learned to be laughed at with composure can never accomplish anything. The scoffer shuts himself up in the dungeon of his own mind. Knowledge and love and truth can come only to him that keeps his heart and mind open to receive them. It is pitiful to see a man who deliberately scorns the beauties of art or nature. Infinitely more pitiful is it to see one who scorns religion, who refuses to believe anything...
...began, cannot be separated in the mind of the mature admirer of Germany's classic age in literature. In spite of the close connection between the two men, however, their views of life were very different. Yet, at times, we find them apparently exchanging their roles, "When Goethe philosophizes, while Schiller's pure genius sings unreflectingly into the beauty of the Universe." They first met in a formal way. Intimacy quickly resulted, however, and under that comradeship the two gave their finest works to the world. Theirs was a friendship to whose inner nobility and inspiration, to whose fruitfulness...
Major Higginson emphasized the absolute necessity of study and of the achievement of learning as a preparation for efficient life work and contentment in later days. In business, politics, and war, he said, not only high purpose, but also a mind adequately trained by education is invaluable. The world has no happiness in store for the man who does not resolutely aim at something noble and good...
...present Advocate, outside of a "slam" at a professor of the University who doesn't mind the boys snowballing, and G. W.'s clever sketch "Happy Thoughts in Cambridge," which suggests an agreeable range of reading on the part of Harvard students,--there is not a word which might not have been written in New York, or Kansas City, or even New Haven. The Advocate has risen to the position of a literary journal which delights, amuses and elevated the public taste. It even has a Christmas story, Mr. Hagedorn's "The Pastor of Wenkendorf," which is agreeable, climactic...
...talk last night to the Christian Association on "The College Student as a Bible Student," Bishop John H. Vincent h.'96 considered the attainments which the young man at college should have in mind, and the great part which Bible study plays in their fulfillment. The power of concentrated attention, a broad survey of the fields of study, together with a better knowledge of one's own powers and adaptations--these attainments, said Bishop Vincent, and most of all, intellectual discipline with the aim of symmetrical development, should be the ideals of youth. For mere mental vigor, without a well...