Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nothing brings more forcibly to the mind of the observer the truth of the adage "Necessity is the mother of invention," than a consideration of the petitions sent in to the faculty. They average several dozen a week and cover a multitude of ailments from "cold feet" to incipient consumption. The faculty in its analogous position of liberal thought and conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty...
...able to choose their future aim in life will necessarily be obliged to make some definite decision in regard to that matter. It may be another case of the blind leading the blind, if we venture to make any suggestions. Nevertheless, it may be well to call to mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice of a profession. All about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they...
...true fatty degeneration. "Alcohol is, if not the most powerful, at any rate the most frequent cause of fatty degeneration" of the heart. The walls of the heart may become so weak as to give way, and thus a nepture of the heart is produced. For your peace of mind, I will say that this is almost always a disease of advanced life...
...finds a dozen or so of his mistakes. After this he is hopeless. He throws himself upon his acquaintances, begging them to take a hand in the carving, and in a short time he has the examination nearly dissected, his only recompense being the loss of his peace of mind and that of his much consulted friends...
...mistranslations given in the last number of the Nation brought to my mind some ingenuous mistakes which I noted while correcting the French paper set for the Harvard admission examinations last June. The 500 or more papers which were written contained every variety of mistake, but there were two sentences which were the special stumbling-ground. "La pauvre femme, sentent la raison de son mari, no bougea et se contenta d'ecarter un peu son rideau pour voir sortir, etc., gave rise to "fearing for the reason of her husband," and "appreciating the reason of his marriage," and the words...