Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When it happens that the make-up of a crew must be changed almost daily through the failure of men to report, the chances of the crew in question are almost annihilated. A man's simple interest in his crew should make him bear this in mind...
Coach Quinn was the next speaker, and addressed himself especially to the Freshmen. Track candidates must keep the fact in mind that they cannot compete next spring if they are on probation. Now, however, work should be begun for the spring. Correct form is important, and this should be learned when there is time. Regular attendance at practice is also another requirement for success...
...came to perfect your mental powers, to acquire a vigorous and strong mind, then in order that you may do this, you must begin at the beginning; and in beginning you must learn to discriminate between the things eternal and the things temporary. In the latter you may think I am speaking of journalism, but I am not. The nearest I ever came to journalism was to be asked to be a co-editor of a paper that did not exist. I replied I did not think...
...studies which are pursued at College, are, relatively speaking, general and liberal, and are much appreciated by American educators; in College they see the necessary means for the training of the mind. There, above all, the American nature finds it interest and elevates itself. Students easily follow their courses, which generally are entirely within their intellectual reach. Some of them keep their examinations always in view, and have a tendency to consider trivial the studies which do not lead directly to them...
...know of nothing so interesting as meeting the mind fresh as it comes into the College, and trying to impress it as well as you can with the habit of thought, trying to stimulate its imagination, trying to get it into the university way. And it is also illuminating, it shows you a good many things. One of the things that it has shown me is that few of the boys who come to us from schools can read books; they can read the printed page, of course, a sentence or a paragraph, but they cannot read a book...