Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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London has invented a name for men of peculiarly detached type of mind who can continue their own business regardless of the war conditions which exist in England today. They are called "Tommy Browns.' The "Daily Mirror" explains the term. The original "Tommy Brown" was Sir Thomas Brown, who at the time of the English civil war took absolutely no notice of the conflict and continued his studies as though no war were in progress. His "Religio Medici" and "Uvu Burial," two master-pieces in English Literature were produced at this time...
...even support itself, but a hive of bees has a great and magnificent intelligence. If a man even fancies himself to be entirely alone his brain reels, his reason totters and he is incapable of thinking or acting in a rational manner. All our activities, whether of the mind or body must, therefore be bound up in others...
...sound basis for everything he does; but it is curious that football men in general, and the coaches who face his team in particular, do not seem to realize that to beat Harvard and Haughton it is necessary to consider Harvard and Haughton's vital, and to my mind correct, principle--which is not drop kicking or placement kicking, but punting...
...mind, no more interesting experiment has been undertaken in any Eastern university in recent years than the establishment of the Freshman dormitories which go into service at Harvard when the College opens next week. It is, as our readers are aware, an effort to democratize Harvard, to mix more thoroughly the diverse elements which once a year are cast into that academic melting-pot. More than that, it introduces certain features of British undergraduate life into our college world, and will tend to emphasize the difference between Harvard College and Harvard University. It is by all odds President Lowell...
...those who were not; and thus did grave injury to the College. The administration of Mr. Lowell, deeply impressed with the lack of a cohesive class-spirit, the continual breaking up of classes into cliques and groups, which hardly knew each other, and were about in the frame of mind to regard each other as enemies, found that it was not necessary for the College to sit by helpless and do nothing to counteract the evil tendency. Hence came the decision to put the entire Freshman class on an equality as to living accommodations, and to see to it that...