Word: minds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubtless surprises many. And yet a little thought must show the reader how much the grind should be pitied. All study, and that on only two or three subjects and on only their limited class-room phases, no social intercourse, no general reading, no recreation of any sort for mind or body, are things that are not very likely to make such a fully developed manhood as a college education certainly ought to make. To "grind" is, it is true very laudable, but to grind all the time is not so. Grind some of course, but read also, converse...
...appreciation of the practical experience which the college life is so ready to bestow, and in the literary or scientific undergraduate societies, on the staff of a college paper, and in a dozen other possible ways, takes advantage of the rich opportunities to strengthen himself in body and mind. The ambition to lead one's class is not, of itself, a high ambition...
...thinks he should be prepared at the age of 18 to enter a university where the choice of studies is free. He holds that a boy has then passed the age when compulsory discipline is valuable, and he can no longer be driven to any useful exercise of his mind, and that he can select for himself a better course of study than any college faculty can possibly select...
...knowing when and how to study. They portion out a certain amount of time each day to study and come what may, be it sport or exercise, they never fail to devote so much time to their studies, nor swerve in their duty. Thus, as it were, wedging their minds between two rigid walls of time they learn to accomplish more by thus limiting their opportunities of study than many who never cease to "grind" out the modicum of study required by the college regulations. The art of study is truly a great one, and an art that ought...
...grounds and buildings of the Episcopal School on Brattle street. The suggestion is at least an ingenious one, and is important inasmuch as it emphasizes the great need of the Annex to-day; it also arouses a little bit of poetic feeling in even the most prosaic mind. One has to acknowledge that all the grounds of the Episcopal School need to make them the most pretty and attractive grounds in Cambridge, is that they be associated with some purpose, with some real life, with which they can hardly be said to have association now; and one also recognizes that...