Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come to Harvard for the single purpose of training our memories, however valuable such incidental training may be. There is another department in the University devoted to the psychology of this subject. Moreover, authorities differ as to the effect upon the memory of loading and unloading the mind under forced draught...
...idea of establishing a home for the student religious societies, a centre of the highest things in the voluntary student life, had been much in the mind of Phillips Brooks, and just before his death in 1893, in the midst of his power, he suggested that such a building would be the best means of commemorating his life and perpetuating his influence at Harvard. The building was opened for use in the fall of 1899, but was formally dedicated on the seventh anniversary of his death, January 23, 1900,--"to Piety, Charity, Hospitality, in grateful memory of Phillips Brooks...
...building will doubtless serve to accentuate in the popular mind the fact that we are affiliated only, and in no sense merged with, Harvard University. The building is modeled after the quadrangles so familiar in English university structures, and a good example of which is the Episcopal Theological Seminary plant here in Cambridge...
...question exceedingly important to the present Junior class comes up next week for final consideration. It is the question of to what extent and in what attitude of mind the class of 1912 will avail themselves of the opportunity of living in the Yard during Senior year. It is a question for Juniors to decide; but surely in their deliberations the Juniors can profit by the advice of a few Seniors who have already experienced life in Senior dormitories...
...last analysis, these statements are true, but no one realizes better than President Lowell that the ideal he has in mind has never been reached. Man has been unable to devise any method by which he may express his finer emotions in common with his fellow-men, and it seems impossible that he ever will. While organized cheering is in theory far from perfect, still it seems to be the only method by which hundreds of enthusiastic and care-free supporters of a college team can give vent to their enthusiasm and the spirit of loyalty, manliness, and sportsmanship that...