Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cause of the large number of misspent college courses is to be found primarily in an irrational and haphazard beginning. Few are the students, who, starting out with no definite plan of study in their mind and no inclination to form one, ever cease their academic meanderings in order to follow a rational scheme of mental training. As they begin, so they end, intellectual skirt-dancers. To avoid such lamentable wasters of educational opportunities, the system of concentration has been put into force. This afternoon, the founder of the scheme, President Lowell, will speak to the Freshmen on the "Choice...
...undergraduates to participate actively in the Forum discussions. Though the meetings so far held have been enthusiastic--they could scarcely have been otherwise, considering the importance of the subjects under discussion--they have not been as well attended as they should have been. It must be borne in mind that the value of the Forum is exactly proportionate to the amount of support accorded it by the student body. It cannot hope to discover and crystallize undergraduate opinion unless its discussions are participated in by men from every branch of College activities. No student should be content to sit idly...
...even though this effort may win no material reward. The term of competition is now very limited, as the last day for submitting contributions is April first, and all who have been working for months on theses and essays for various courses, whether they have had the Prize in mind or not, should turn them over to the Committee in charge...
...President Eliot vividly traced the various religious elements, doctrines, and practices found in India, China, and Japan. He briefly pointed out some of the effects that a true religion can have on the people that accept it. Two of our doctrines so great in the development of the human mind are those of fraternity and of the conception of the Deity as a god to be worshipped in spirit. Neither of these conceptions generally exists in India, China, or Japan. The Eastern races have no conception of the brotherhood of man. For instance, if a woman in Canton were...
...There are three requirements to be met before man's dominion can be realized. First: Man cannot exist separate from God. To find the real man we must therefore begin with God; that is, we must know God. Second: We must understand what is to be overcome. The human mind is like an atmosphere in which both evil and good messages are discharged. We must learn to accept only the good. Third: We must have knowledge necessary to resist these evil messages: "Evil must be met and conquered in its origin, the mind...