Word: mind
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...customary, we believe, for the Professors in some of the departments to give but one hour to the instruction of the members of two different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive...
...Drown your grief, if you can't celebrate a victory." We sincerely hope that the Yale men will have a chance to "drown their grief." The usual cut is poorly enough drawn, and the joke beneath it is still worse. It may be intelligible to the Yale mind, but we are obliged to confess that the point is too deep...
...must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading one of the Odes when meeting these lines...
...surprising that Omar should have busied himself with the same problems that are occupying men's thoughts to-day, for they are the questions that men in all lands and in all ages have been trying to answer; but the remarkable fact in regard to him is, that his mind ran in the same veins, and evolved the same conclusions, as the minds of the leading philosophers and scientists of to day. It is only within a few years that theologians of established worth have been willing to admit truths in regard to the future life that the astronomer poet...
...rather interesting, when one has nothing else to do, to look over the archives of one of the college papers, and see what the undergraduate mind is at times capable of producing. As we have always been of an unselfish nature, we think it is but fair to give our readers a share of the pleasure we experience in opening such contributions as these we have selected...