Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take a place of overshadowing importance in the student mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them. The problem is not merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons on a Pacific island and in a fortnight they will split into...
...been delegated to the dust bin where repose other curious and outgrown theories the hampered and restricted our daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics...
...Mind is called infinite. Yet expressed in terms of matter it is minute, scarce larger than would fit in an empty nutshell. The omnipotence of man becomes petty besides his ignorance; his greatest achievements, his boasted comprehension of the universe, are contained within a clockwork mass of matter. And the training of this mind up to a place where it even in some bare measure may approach the divine, takes the greater part of a man's life...
...close approach to the kernel of the matter is contained in a statement of President Lowell's that "Culture . . . does not mean the possession of a body of knowledge common to all educated men, for there is no such thing today. It denotes rather an attitude of mind than a specific amount of information...
...receptive attitude of mind is the chief essential of conversation. Possessing it, there is no reason why even specialists may not engage in conversation to the interest and advantage of either party. an attitude of intellectual receptivity is the really great thing which a college can give students. It is more than the essential quality of culture; it is the basis of civilization...