Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grotesque, to say the least. At Harvard, most Freshmen, at first surprised at, then pleased by, Harvard's religious freedom (a condition, by the way, unknown at Yale or Princeton) go through their first year utterly ingnorant of what Appleton Chapel has to offer. Because Appleton represents in their minds the College form of the preparatory school compulsory morning chapel, they avoid it as an irksome task no longer required by the curriculum. The same idea is apt to remain fixed in the Sophomore mind. Perhaps, as a Junior, the individual may be compelled to attend an 8.15 o'clock...
...possible to find anywhere so exquisitely negligent an attitude toward a supposedly severe punishment as exists in the present undergraduate mind toward the man on probation? For utter non-chalance there is nothing like it. Not that the institution is ineffective, for the opposite is known to be true. But the light-hearted air in which one man, not on probation, will attempt to console his delinquent friend, cannot but appeal to the sense of humor. In the minds of the great majority, who are in good standing, probation is but a question of existing for a few months without...
Phillips Brooks House was dedicated on January 23, 1900, the seventh anniversary of the death of Phillips Brooks. The idea of establishing a home for student religious societies had been in Phillips Brooks's mind and just before his death he suggested that such a building would be the best means of commemorating his life and perpetuating his influence at Harvard. Contributions for this memorial poured in from all parts of the country and in the fall of 1899 the building was completed. Since its opening the building has well served its purpose, as the centre of all philanthropic...
...most unfortunate features of athletics at Harvard lies in the fact that every year good men are kept from competing on our teams because of low standing in college studies. There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of any sane individual but that the College office is doing its plain duty in rigorously enforcing the rule that, to take part in college athletics, undergraduates shall be required to maintain a certain standard in their curriculum work. Although Harvard men are perfectly well aware that such a rule exists and is enforced, every year there appear to be some...
Lecture on "The American Mind" by Professor Bliss Perry, in Huntington Hall. Boston...