Word: tending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...knew him, but also for the loss of a name which ability and industry seemed to have marked out for a high place on their roll of honor. Having early chosen medicine as the work of his life, he had thoroughly devoted himself to it, making all his studies tend to that end. He had a mind extremely quick to receive and originate ideas, an untiring industry, a ready and decided judgment; his progress, therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability...
...that we could wish, and does not allow us all the liberty of choice that could be desired. Our fellow-students have an excuse in the numerous social duties which the neighborhood of a great city entails. But we wish that more generous contributions from them might tend to raise, us nearer to the inattainable standard of our Middletown contemporary...
...have a real sense of their duty as citizens. On the one hand, it would awaken their interest in such matters, and stimulate them to examine the aspect of affairs much more carefully than they now do; on the other, the exchange of widely differing ideas would tend to reduce their surprising theories to a comparatively practical form. And now, when clubs are being formed for almost every purpose, why can we not have one for the discussion of political and social matters? A word combat between witty and intelligent men would certainly be amusing; and the habit...
...This may be so; the great tension of the mind attendant on severe mental labor should be relaxed before eating; but that there is sufficient tension during recitation to produce injury, if dinner immediately succeed, we cannot believe. To recite a lesson already learned requires little exertion, may even tend, by gradual relaxation after a morning's work, to put the mind in a desirable condition; and though study directly after eating must be injurious, yet the necessity for studying at that hour is not apparent, and so few recitations occur at three o'clock that they may be left...
...Indeed, if the moral improvement had not shown itself from the opening of the hall, the behavior of the students would have to be attributed to the lecture on table-etiquette, which was reported in the last Advocate. There can be no doubt that the advice there given will tend to cause still further progress toward a higher civilization...