Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This discrimination, it may be remarked, is in most cases not made consciously. The student, wondering whom to vote for as class secretary, does not ordinarily run over in his mind all the winners of athletic events he can think of, and select from them one that he considers fitted for the office. Yet, unconsciously, what he does is not very different from this. the reason is, not so much his desire to recognize the best sprinter in his class as his ignorance of any of his classmates, outside of his personal circle, except those whose names he has seen...
...spend the ten or fifteen minutes between the close of the service and the beginning of the examinations in no better way than in hearing this music. If we can take the word of those who have tried this means of preparation we are sure that it leaves the mind far clearer and more capable of its best efforts than the eleventh hour cramming which usually fills the few minutes between breakfast and examinations: At any rate it could do no harm for all to give the new method a fair test...
...poets for writing about "Beautiful Spring". I like to hear rain on a tin roof. So I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, air, do you think it ever rains on that tin? No, air; skips it every time. Mind, in this speech I have been trying merely to do honor to the New England weather--no language could do it justice...
...would like the scholastic victor to be carried from the gridiron of intellectual contest on the (figurative) shoulders of his comrades amid the overwhelming cheers of a crowded (symbolic) stadium! Mr. Chubb knows very well he is only trying to strike the undergraduate in that "last infirmity of noble mind...
...safely say comes from the majority of undergraduates: we plead for more final reviews. In many courses there is a certain lack of correlation of the lectures with one another and with the reading, which means a complete lack of unity in the course in the student's mind. The reviews do not make it possible for the loafers to get through, because no short review could do that. They simply clear up many hazy points and give the men a view of their courses as a whole which they are frequently unable to get unassisted. As for omitting reviews...