Word: mind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will give their only Cambridge concert of this year in Sanders Theatre. The musical clubs have not had as successful a year as usual, because they were again forbidden a Christmas trip, and because the fall concert had to be given up on account of mismanagement. Bearing this in mind, it is certainly to their credit that they have kept at their practice through the year and reached a fair degree of excellence, as is said, despite the lack of most of their usual incentives to improvement. And so, even though the clubs are not very hightly thought...
...often asked, asid he, is, "Do the universityes fit men for practical life?" This arises from the mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world a man can build on this broad and sure foundation. It is this general culture which has given...
...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...
JOURNALISM as a profession interests all Harvard men. Those who have this in mind can obtain control of an established and favorite Boston weekly at a very reasonable price. Particulars of F. H. Morgan, 50 Ames Building, Boston...
...found them rowing in very good shape, far better, indeed, than I had expected. They showed more confidence and greater steadiness, which proved to my mind that they had been carefully thinking out for themselves what they had been learning in the fall, and had been constantly endeavoring to apply these lessons under the guidance of skilful instructors. To put it in a different way: whereas in the fall they had always to be thinking, with the recurrence of every stroke, of the various motions that they had to get through, as of something more or less strange or unaccustomed...