Word: mind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been transmitted to the stockholders. It shows that the business for the past year was the largest in the history of the Society, the total sales amounting to $316,310.46, an increase of about $12,000 over the business of the year preceding. It is to be borne in mind that this increase has taken place in a year of general business depression and in the face of a decreased enrollment in the undergraduate department of the University, the source from which the Co-operative draws its chief patronage. The Society's, membership made a slight gain, being...
...large the welfare of other undergraduate and graduate departments is assured for future years. It is a regrettable fact that through many early graduations and some failures by the way the Senior class is but little more than half as large as the Freshman class. To the impartial mind it would seem that some change in the requirements which would establish either three years or four years as the normal period for the attainment of the bachelor's degree would be preferable to the present state of confusion in which the valuable element of class unity is so largely lost...
...grasp effectively any problem with which his duties or his interest may impel him to deal. An undergraduate, addicted mainly to the classics recently spoke to his adviser in an apologetic tone of having elected a course in natural science, which he feared was narrowing. Such a state of mind is certainly deplorable, for in the present age some knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought...
...means to master a subject, and it ought to enable him to seize and retain information of every kind from that unending stream that flows past every man who has the eyes to see it. Moreover, it ought to be such that he is capable of turning his mind effectively to direct preparation for his life work, whatever the profession or occupation he may select...
...that the professional schools ought to be so ordered that they are adapted to receive him. But let us not be dogmatic in this matter, for it is one on which great divergence of opinion exists. The instructors in the various professional schools are by no means of one mind in regard to it, and their views are of course based largely upon experience. Our Law School lays great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned...