Word: minding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Robert Grant '73 then read a poem contrasting athletic glory in undergraduate life with scholarly glory in after-life. He began by satirizing the undergraduate's attitude in regard to athletics and scholarship, and closed by citing the tremendous power which the trained mind has in the world...
...undergraduates undoubtedly keeps a great number of them from applying at all, and prevents the Yard from being as representative as it should be. We believe that conditions would be improved if the allotments were made in January or earlier. By that time nearly everyone has made up his mind as to his plans for the next year, and if the applications were unsuccessful there would still be a chance to get good rooms at the outside dormitories...
...chief aims of the Union lectures on the professions to help undergraduates to keep an open mind on this subject until they have exhausted the evidence within their reach. A man whose mind is nearly made up to become a lawyer may well keep his decision in suspense until he has heard what can be said for business, or applied science, or education. A man who thinks he wants to be a doctor may well hear what Dean Christian has said about a medical career but also what President King will say tonight about "The Claims of the Ministry...
...dramatic interpretation with reference to good elocution and vocalization, while there are still others who simply want practice in expressing their thoughts before an audience with clearness and conciseness. The arrangements committee in outlining the work of the club has been forced to keep these various interests in mind and to plan accordingly. In order to give all men an opportunity to work along their particular lines of ability it has been decided among other things to present Rostand's "The Romancers," in Cambridge on the evening of April 3rd for the benefit of the Cambridge Hospital League. The Dramatic...
...better organized body. At the meetings of the presidents and captains only a fair majority of the men usually appear. Of those present only a few at best have any very definite ideas of the position for which the election is being held, or have any particular candidates in mind. The result is that two or three men express their choices, and the election is made in accordance with their ideas...