Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is the result of any such reading, it is to be highly commended. Perhaps equally successful is O. W. Larkin '18 in "Imagination in a Pawnshop," which with the skill and the tantalizing of Frank Stockton Smith leaves us in anything but a satisfied frame of mind, but we are convinced that this author can write...
...morning session, great pleas were made for party harmony, and for decisive action. Chauncy Depew held up the present Democratic administration as an excellent example of a shifting, vacillating policy, and called upon the delegates to vote with the thought ever present in mind that the country does, and will need badly "the guidance of a firm hand...
...this connection we must mention the intelligent and enthusiastic services of Mr. Roger Pierce '04, business director of the Medical School, who has set the Dean free for work really belonging to him-and of which there is no lack-and brings a trained, business mind, quickened by interest in the work, to the manifold details of a large and complicated machine...
...frequently men have merely retaining minds which are capable of remembering any number of barren facts gained from the works of other men. But, unfortunately, a machine-like mind is not at a premium in the business and professional circles of today. The young man with a constructive mind is alone able to cope with existing problems. Thousands of men can add up columns of figures correctly, remember any number of recorded law cases, or know every law in chemistry,--but it is the exceptional man who with the aid of a constructive mind, can establish an improved system...
Likewise in college courses, the great majority of men whose minds are normally active and penetrating are content to accept, and retain momentarily a mass of detailed facts. They forget that the dates and rules required in courses are only means intended to train their minds for future constructive work. A student should not regard his courses as a mere acquisition of facts, but as a development and broadening of his mind...