Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sincere, even if badly expressed, life-and-death thoughts of a very young man." The Essays, though competent in style, will hardly outlive the occasion which they originally served. The Verses have somewhat more of significance and distinction. Thoughtful and manifestly sincere, they are the expression of a serious mind which has not yet reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...results of scientific research. Such a press can also advance the prestige of the University by issuing over its imprint learned works that may not need special subsides. These books would be accepted, without doubt, by commercial publishers, but they might fail to be connected in the public mind with the institution at which they were produced, did they not bear its imprint...
...Sexton had not made up his mind last night on his pitcher to start the game, but will probably use Hitchcock in the box, with Mahan in reserve. The batting orders: HARVARD. PRINCETON. Nash, 1b. l.f., Hanks Wingate, s.s. 2b., Bolton Clark, 2b. c.f., Cook Ayres, 3b. r.f., Greene Gannett, r.f. 1b., Rhoads Hardwick, l.f. s.s., Law Milholland, c.f. 3b., Gill Hitchcock, p. c., Wall Waterman, c. p., Wood or Lamberton
...this connection the recent development of biological chemistry should be mentioned, a subject which in time will surely have a strong influence on the practice of medicine. Innumerable scientific and technical problems of all kinds still remain to occupy the attention of the chemist of an investigating turn of mind...