Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study of the question and learning to state his views on it forcefully, will have done as much for himself as the man who tugs an oar all season. This is not decrying the value of rowing or any other form of athletics. But it is worth bearing in mind that the forum is more in evidence in after life than the shell or the gridiron...
...ball game? If men come to College to learn baseball or football, and that alone, an athletic defeat would rightly bring greater chagrin. But--the young men who sneer at Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly achievements to the contrary notwithstanding -- one comes to College to improve one's mind, not one's batting eye. So a defeat in debating--since it is a contest of minds.--should be even more of a blow to the pride of the College than a defeat on the Thames...
With this in mind, many men in the University should give their moral and mental support to debating. If representative men, capable of standing up and talking cogent thoughts, will go out for the team, debating will be put on the basis it deserves...
...other words, Chapel takes strong hold of many of those who have given it a fair trial,--the most eloquent of arguments in its favor. The reason for the small support is not the indifference of the Harvard man toward religion, nor yet the essentially pagan tenor of his mind. The student should rather be blamed for allowing an asset, as a correspondent this morning puts it, to go unappreciated. Plenty of men in College have never been inside of Appleton, and a lot more have never been there under favorable circumstances. The average student has no conception of what...
...University is wise in not forcing attendance. When men are herded to church, they lose most of its benefits because their attitude is wrong. Chapel, after all, is a frame of mind, and not a daily task. As a mental condition which does not begin at 8.45 o'clock nor cease at 9, but carries over through the entire day, it is an asset. Religion is not a state of coma, a pleasing reverie, but a positive and driving force. It is energy. If this is the case, the Chapel habit is at least worth investigating, whether it finally proves...