Word: minds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first objection which must arise in one's mind to a Board of Overseers constituted solely of New England men is that it renders the government of the University essentially provincial in its character. And this must sooner or later react upon the University itself, as indeed it has already upon the college. Provincialism can hardly be courted by those in authority at this time when we are rejoicing in the wonderful development of the University and when it is the most cherished plan of the President that Harvard shall become in every sense a national university, drawing its support...
...terms 'high and low,' as applied to pleasure, signify anything else than varying degrees of intensity and duration? (Mill's Utilitarianism Chap. II; Grote: On Mill's Utilitarianism, Chap. on Quality of Pleasure; Sidgwick's and Green's articles in "Mind" 1877 on "Hedonism and the Chief Good;" Hyslop in Andover Review...
...must attribute much of her high fame gained in the middle years of the present century. Those were the years in which the beginnings of true scientific investigation were being made in America. To strengthen these first feeble efforts Professor Lovering brought all the powers of a far-reaching mind and a noble zeal. In this, his work, he brought strongly to the front the name of Harvard which he helped to identify with all that was best in educational and scientific advance in this country...
...gave the vitality of his mind and body to Harvard's service. In deploring his death, we can yet be glad in realizing that the end did not come until the results of his long years of earnest activity were well established; until the University and its students appreciated the value of his efforts and were already pressing forward to the same ideals towards which he advanced...
...same customs. It would strengthen that healthy liking of out-door sports, which the British have alone maintained in Europe since the Greeks degenerated. It would symbolize also to some extent that great ideal of the training of a nation, the harmonious discipline of the body and of the mind...