Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly for the first effect of the concentration of mind in taking notes is to make an impression on the brain, which when appealed to by the notes in review gives them almost the freshness of spoken words. Then, too, notes recall not only the words put down, but also many of the illustrations and answers of the professor...
...favor only to "many students" and not to the university at large. This is true, but it must be remembered that the success of this attempt would give more men the enjoyment of sparring. Practice of this kind is, as all other gymnasium exercise, merely a recreation for the mind, but I cannot understand why it should not on that account be well cultivated. The art of self-defence, while it gives a person a happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also...
...Weather Indications" the error would have been in no wise surprising, and would have foretold stormy weather quite as accurately as any prophesy of a "probably fair day" in a Boston daily. But all this snow that now covers Holmes and the college yard generally brings forebodings to the mind of the Harvard student. Recognizing the fickleness of the weather clerk for the regions about Cambridge he knows not what a day may bring upon him, and is ready to wake any morning and find Holmes a beautiful sparkling lake, and the yard a system of ponds and rivers, with...
...writing on historical or similar topics is excellent practice. Doubtless in every year Harvard produces much fairly readable stuff of this kind. In these compositions the author has put enough thought to make the grouping of facts, which are not his own, still so much the expression of his mind, that the essay is sincere and of worth. Yet of such work we see too little in the college papers...
...paper, a sketch by J. S. of Dale, is a fascinating but horrible study in after-death pathology. The materialistic nature of future suffering is drawn with a realism at times absolutely repulsive. This article will, perhaps, be the one most interesting to the readers. Its effect upon the mind is a strange mixture of psychological curiosity and mental disgust. From this we turn with satisfaction to the translation from de Musset by Mr. Santayana. The poetical powers of Mr. Santayana might, perhaps, be questioned, when he handles that most dangerous of all compositions, the philosophical sonnet, but here they...