Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...confess my inability, in the space of time allowed, to do justice to Mr. Dana's lofty character and to his signally noble career, which was guided from first to last by high principle, an indomitable courage, a lofty independence of spirit, and a mind always conscious to itself of right. He met with many cruel disappointments, his aspiring dreams were not realized, but take him, all for all, he was a man of whom his native state and country may well be proud, and give him a high place among its immortals...
...this period that his plastic mind can best be moulded and his hesitating footsteps pointed in the right direction. It is at this time especially, that he can benefit from competent, kindly advice, and from the experience of others who have been over the same path...
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that when the football team goes to Princeton it will put up a good game. It will fight hard. But its fight will be harder, its desire to win keener, if it has a crowd of supporters in the stands. Then victory will be sweeter, and defeat more bitter--consequently less likely...
...asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly to getting as wide an acquaintance with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone who has had practical experience. The mind that deals only with elementary work in many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire a firm grasp of any of them. The smatterer on leaving college is a smatterer. He has never learned anything thoroughly, and although he may do so later, his subsequent training will hardly relate backwards...
...cleanly. No irritating fringes are left over. The game is won or lost. Analysis and speculation seem superfluous. The point is that such a philosophy is as different as possible from that which motivates the intellectual world of the modern college, with its searchings, its flexibility and openness of mind. In the scientific world of the instructor, things are not won or lost. His attitude is not sporting...