Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...studies. He was one of the most productive of scholars and besides his wide resources of knowledge and invention, he had extraordinary gifts in presenting his thoughts so that many will remember him as a teacher of unusual fascination. Many an illustration of his would take root in the mind, giving life and vividness to thought of the highest subtlety. And beneath all this was a rare personal kindliness and hospitality. No differences of judgment in matters that are trying the souls of men in our day can obscure our sense of these services and those engaging human qualities." --Boston...
With these in mind, in addition to other qualities that I shall mention, I have made the following selections for my first All-American team...
...wise as to be able to say that one faction is altogether just, the other altogether evil. At such a time when all wisdom is clouded, and virtue takes on the appearance of sin, no single mind may declare the truth. One should hardly allow his partisanship, however earnest, nor his neutrality, however firm, to bind his liberality...
...Corporation, announced in another column, authorizing the Treasurer of receive contributions for a memorial to Harvard men who have fallen on the battlefields to Europe should be applauded by all men who admire heroism and who believe that absolute self-sacrifice should not be forgotten. With commendable breadth of mind the Corporation determined that the memorial should not only be for those who have died in the service of the Allies, but that it should perpetuate the names of all who have given their lives for any cause. Under so inclusive a banner as this, even the most bitter supporters...
...means instead of an end is a faculty--that is rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio of the energy...