Word: minds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mind and body so act and react on each other that whatever affects the one must in some degree affect the other, and that two dissimilar sensations in the body would produce similar conditions of the mind will scarcely be asserted. Whatever we eat, then, must affect the mind, and each article of food must produce a certain state of mind...
Every study is best pursued in a particular condition of the intellect; mathematics require one state, languages another. If we could, in childhood, so act on the mind as to fix it permanently in any condition, We could produce in the child a preference for any study; if, in later years, we had the power of influencing the mind so as to favor the state in which it had become settled, we could greatly increase its power in its favorite study. From these considerations comes my theory, - a theory which I state as follows: It is possible, by feeding...
Owing to the neglect of this matter, there is a deplorable ignorance of the effects, on the mind, of different foods. To obviate this difficulty a committee should be at once appointed to inquire into this subject. The President, Dean, and the leading Professor in each of the above-mentioned departments might from the committee, with a corps of proctors as assistants...
...that only counts a small per cent! I sha' n't look at it till the semiannual. Did you see the Club races, Harry? I meant to go in, but somehow or another I could n't make up my mind to get up in time, as I cut prayers." Here he tore a page off an old Crimson and lit his pipe again...
...universal law that in all progress the development is from a homogeneous simplicity of construction to a heterogeneous complexity. Applying this to the evolution of an intellectual society, it is evident that, with the march of enlightenment, thinkers must both become more trained in mind and more specially and diversely educated. The place of the general lawyer is now filled by the marine lawyer, the criminal lawyer, the trust lawyer, and many others. But the growth of Harvard within the last few years has been rather to discourage special attention to any one study, and to tempt the student...