Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...baseball player in the world; yet he often submits willingly to drudgery that would tend to prepare him for the latter, though recoiling from study that would fit him for intellectual work. This shows a disproportion between immediate ambition and relative permanent values, even as they stand in the mind of the undergraduate himself. Of course, the disproportion is due in large part to a contrast in the amount of applause won by the two forms of activity in college, for few men at any age are so self-con- tained as to be impervious to apparent estimates of success...
...Parker's mind the duty of a lawyer is not to his client at the expense of the courts or of justice, of which the courts are but the visible symbol; but he must at all times have in view the rights of his case, its effect on others, and the precedent which a decision inevitably establishes. The temptation of a man just entering the field of law is to accept the first opportunity presented, but he has no right to "win a position by the payment of a price which he will ever afterwards regret...
There are many good reasons why the strict registration requirements should be maintained, but it should, nevertheless, be borne in mind that this necessitates an equal loss of time to residents of the west at the end of vacation; and when the recess has been thus curtailed at both ends, the time spent at home is, for many, not worth the journey...
PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB. "The Christian Religion and the Modern Mind." Professor Daniel Evans. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...effectual deterrent to students who otherwise would have aspired to honors. An A obtained by such work is considered of little value by the majority of students, for, as President Lowell has put it, "the object of a liberal education is not so much knowledge as an attitude of mind and a familiarity with process of thought...