Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subscribes as generously as he is able, the same uncertainty will arise about sending the crew to New London, and the chances are even that funds will fall short. It costs money to run a crew, and if Ninety-five means to have one, it must make up its mind right away to support...
...spoke on the necessity of carrying our religion into all that we do. No one day, no one profession is any more sacred than another. What makes anything sacred is God's presence, and God ought to be present with us at all times. We ought to bear in mind that we are men come here to enlarge our lives. We ought to put away the "childish things" of life, and vulgarity, blasphemy, immorality, are childish things...
David's state of mind when he had seen the solution of the problem seems to have been made up of three elements: the first, remorse for ever having doubted the goodness of God's government; the second, a new glow of love and enthusiasm; and the third, a desire to tell men of his restored happiness of mind. And here there seems to be a lesson for us. The man who has been delivered from a burden of perplexity and sorrow must not forget that there are other men still finding there loads almost too hard to bear...
...crew candidates have been at work very assiduously every afternoon going through the regular routine of dumb-bell exercise, a half-hour's work at the rowing-weights, and a brisk run of from three to ten miles. Up to last Saturday, over twenty men had it in their mind's eye to row in the '93 boat next May; but on Saturday, the ambitions of several of these were unavoidably thwarted and at present exactly sixteen men are left in the lottery for places, - that is, sixteen men exclusive of Capt. Burgess and D. Osborne Earle, who are coaching...
...challenge trophy, is interfering as showing a possible tendency wards contests among the colleges in intellectual athletics, so to speak. The ? debates between Harvard and Yale ? winter illustrate the same tendency. ? interesting speculation may arise whether such contests would ever gain the pro+++ nence and importance in the undergraduate mind that the physical exhibitions now hold. It is hardly probable that they will ever be so popular with the public, but it is entirely conceivable that among college men themselves the rivalry in these competitions might become as keen and absorbing as that which is now associated with the contests...