Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second, to the incessant noise, which has much the same confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time when a man should be devoting all of his attention to the task before him, he may be prevented from concentrating his mind. The popular idea that a man may be made timid by the shouts of opponents I believe to be much overrated...
There is no doubt in my mind about the benents of cheering to an athletic team, no matter in what branch or sport it may be. There always come times in college competition of all sorts when a team or an individual does more than it was believed possible; and, although this may be said to have been due to any number of causes, the real one was that the individual or the members of the team had, for perhaps but an instant, had one ear open to the grandstand and had received the outside encouragement...
...been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
...conclusion, Dr. Osler addressed the young men particularly, and advised that each should meet the problem alone. The heart is a better guide than the mind in such matters, and our reason does not lead us so well as our natural instinct. The one is capable only of perplexing us, while the other gives us hope of life eternal...
Systematic criticism of either prose or poetry, Professor Butcher said, was late in appearance among the Greeks in the from of writing, although a constant oral interchange of ideas preceded it. A fine sense of discrimination and an ideal of artistic truth were developed in the popular mind at a period when Greek literature was most healthy in spirit and spontaneous in expression...