Word: minds
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
...master-mind that planned the whole...
...many kinds of books, and in scientific works are an absolute necessity. But to illustrate a novel is in bad taste. In fiction, where the appeal is mainly to the imagination of the reader, he ought to be allowed to figure the characters and incidents in his own mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate for the sake or helping...
...plan of work he had laid out for himself. Wonderfully seductive are these golden autumn days to lovers of the country and out-door sports, and although, by dint of required recitations judiciously disposed from the first hour to the last, the body may be kept in Cambridge, the mind inevitably wanders from the printed page to catch the gorgeous hues of that almost tropical picture with which New England compensates her sons, once a year, for the dreary length of her inhospitable winter. Saturday sees nearly the whole college scattered through the adjoining country in quest of rural enjoyment...
...crooked "s" between peculation and speculation, both despoilers of the highest attributes of our nature. As to this expectation of "paying back," which is always brought forward as a salve for the conscience, it is, at best, but a very equivocal and unsatisfactory excuse, and recalls to mind the old adage that "Hell is paved with good intentions...