Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best efforts to the success of the course, and the readings already given are examples of the excellence which may justly be expected in the readings which are to follow. Too many of us are apt to lay aside the classical or even the modern languages, when once our minds are diverted to other channels of study. It is exactly for such men that the course has been established. Little effort is required to attend these readings, and there is no supplementary course of instruction offered to us which will repay so well the time bestowed upon it as this...
...until the close of their senior year, it must follow that some schooling in the art of study, so newly learned, when it can be attended by a humility so newly attained, is most desirable and likely to be most beneficial. A lesson is never really inculcated in the mind until some experience in its principles has been...
Finally, let everyone realize that at the age of graduation from college the mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better and it will promote profit and pleasure, present and future, to adopt some definite and of course some interesting line of study...
...freshman foot-ball team must bear in mind that there is such a thing as over-training...
...what he lost the first. The Harvard spirit does not drive men to work. They must find out for themselves, and must not forget under cover of physical improvement or bettering their ability to associate with men that the fundamental object of University life is to educate the mind. There are men who take pride in saying that they have never seen the inside of the library; from these men, freshmen, coming from the restrictions of school life and imagining that the freedom of the Harvard system means a license for laziness, learn to consider it beneath their dignity...