Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking from notes; and the true, natural way which involves thorough preparation of the subject, without foreknowledge of the words in which it is to be delivered. Then the lecturer if he is clever gives the impression of talking casually but very well, and of having something on his mind which he wishes to impress upon his audience...
...suggestion for a more effective and less costly method of elimination is ingenious, but not convincing. The test for the "slow reactionist" which the author sets up, will not disclose the possession or absence, of the capacity for forming quick and accurate judgments, the capacity commonly called presence of mind, which is certainly as important as spontaneity of reaction in the presence of danger. We wonder if Mr. Deane's essay in sarcasm, entitled "Bubbles," was inserted in the same issue as Mr. Ricker's article by chance or by design...
...should be the aim of every educational institution to equip a student with all the mental processes it can, and thus permanently develop his breadth of view, rather than fill his mind with minute facts soon to be forgotten...
Professor James says of M. Boutroux, "The word 'liberal' seems to have been coined especially to apply to him, so sympathetically has he entered, into the most diverse states of mind interpreting scientific men, philosophers and religious men to each other. His own way of thinking has many points of resemblance to what is known as pragmatism in this country. His effort, since the publishing of his first book, has been to show that concrete life exceeds our powers of abstract formulation, that what we see, feel and think in the world of reality are only approximations which the intellect...
...philosophers and philosophies about which he writes. Instead of presenting the theories and dogmas of a philosopher as he left them, M. Boutroux has attempted to give to each system an historical individuality, by tracing the distinctive traits of each tenet or theory as it developed in the mind of the philosopher. Everywhere he adds the personal touch of the man to his characterization of his works...