Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hurtful this year in that the game is at New Haven. A distinct impression of the Harvard undergraduate will be carried away by every spectator of the game, and if his behavior is not in accordance with the best traditions, this impression will defame the University in the public mind. If the team can win, the players and all Harvard men are entitled to enjoy its victory unmarred by unseemly conduct after the game...
...business quickly and effectively, let there be an executive committee of ten men or less, which shall have power to act for the Council except in cases of unusual importance. Such an arrangement would obviate the greatest faults of the old organization. As soon as the undergraduate mind is restored to its normal condition by the end of the football season, the re-animation and re-juvenation of the present defunct Student Council must be undertaken and carried through...
...whose view is that outlined above, bear in mind that there is less than a month between the end of vacation and the first examinations. Between the present and vacation six weeks intervene, and if the work of this period is not kept up conscientiously, the time after the recess will be found all too short to make up for past work neglected. In brief, men should realize that the vacation actually brings the examinations ten days nearer than the calendar indicates. After the recess, an immediate resumption of hard study is difficult. A moderate degree of industry now will...
...progress of his mind can be traced in the successive topics of his teaching. In 1873 he became an instructor in Anatomy at Harvard; but soon, finding greater interest in Physiology, he accepted an Assistant Professorship in that subject, in 1876. For the next three years, in addition to teaching Physiology, he offered a course on the theory of Evolution in the Department of Philosophy. In 1880 he abandoned Physiology altogether, becoming in that year Assistant Professor, and in 1885 Professor, of Philosophy. He now gave himself enthusiastically to Psychology, and under his energetic guidance a psychological laboratory was established...
...fall rowing as a serious step toward a place in the University or Freshman boat. The irregularity of certain men bears most unjustly upon these men, as every shift and change retards their development. The oarsmen who take the dormitory rowing practice as a voluntary exercise should bear in mind that they are unfair to their crew-mates individually and collectively when they fail to report...