Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College generation have missed, often unconsciously, a contact with one of the few really great teachers Harvard has had the good fortune to number within its Faculty. Graduates and others who have known him intimately remember him as an inspiring teacher and as a steadfast friend. His breadth of mind, but especially his unbounded sympathy for the sometimes petty, sometimes momentous, troubles of undergraduate life, have endeared him to our fathers and older brothers for ten College generations. How many of us will be able, at three score years and ten, to produce a record so fraught with true human...
...still only one of the academic departments which need to awaken to the influence of the word "social". "If one may speak in familiar terms in this the family circle of our Alma Mater, I would say that not the least interesting thing about this work, to my mind, is the revelation of the growth of the author. A comparison of this with his earlier works show a tremendous progress towards what I should call the modern and public as distinct from the old and individualistic point of view. Twenty-five years ago Professor Taussig would probably have accepted, with...
...most of them look upon the excursion as a "gaudy vacation" and do not work hard "as unofficial delegates of their country for the cultivation of international friendship." He describes the mass of American tourists in Europe as passing through the country with "an open purse but a closed mind. This careless, haughty, condescending, unfair behavior toward European nations, ultimately the residue of a patriotic view that already belongs to the past" he ascribes partly to the idea with which the nation has grown up--namely, "that it is an English nation, and the immigrants who come from other countries...
Professor Spalding's speech dealt chiefly with the relations of musical ability as a branch of general scholarship, to ability in other directions. The great power of music is as a relaxation after exertion either mental or physical; there is nothing that equally soothes and refreshes the mind or body. The entertainment of others by music is a laudable activity, and should be recognized as such; and this emphasizes the point that, in the matter of affording pleasure to an audience, concerts go just as far as any other from of amusement...
...impossible without faith in God. This may sound like sermonizing, but if ever a sermon brought conviction to the heart of its hearer, this one preached by Mr. Thomas and interpreted in a masterly way by Mr. Mason and his excellent company, should touch the heart and stir the mind also...