Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories are better. In "The Elixir" O. Bates has a weird idea, which he handles with rapidity and effect. H. Hagedorn's story is interesting, and would have deserved more space if the author had been ambitious to tell us more of the internal processes of the mind of the villain...
...vicissitudes, however, there is no reason to believe that this team will not prove itself on Saturday to be fully up to the standard set by the strong Freshman elevens of the last few years. What is most needed now is a shaking-together,--a consciousness in the mind of each player that he is no longer playing by himself and for himself, but as a member of an organized body in which, like a machine, the disarrangement of any one component part is fatal to the effectiveness of the whole. Other things being equal, this idea of unity present...
...poem was written to disprove the popular theory that protracted scientific study renders the mind unfit for purely literary work. It is in effect five brief plays in which are reflected the large mind and daring spirit of the days of Hawkins, Raleigh, and Drake...
...best judgment, holding out to him as an ideal that he should know his subject so thoroughly as to be able to take part in a debate with Yale or Princeton with nothing committed to memory, with nothing rigidly predetermined, but with the whole question clear in his mind, every argument at his tongue's end, alert, ready to adapt his reasoning closely to that of his opponents. Indeed, to inculcate in him this ideal, and, more immediately, to direct his work so that time and energy may not be wasted,--are the functions of the coach. How well these...
...Arts and Sciences show a gain of 27 over the corresponding figure of last year, a loss of 37 in the College and of 19 in the Scientific School being more than offset by the remarkable gain of 83 in the Graduate School. It should be borne in mind that technical questions of registration and classification in these departments tend to obscure the significance of the variations which appear from year to year in their separate enrolment figures. The Freshman class in the College has failed to reach its remarkable figure of last year which showed a gain...