Word: mind
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...deal very much to his mind...
...naught of the kind is the Tutor's mind...
...that so many of her students are conditioned in Arithmetic and Modern Geography, and so few comparatively in the Classics. It evinces a commendable disregard for all things modern, and a due loyalty to the customs of our more enlightened ancestors. It is difficult to understand how any right-minded individual can advocate a course of study that contains less of Latin and Greek than the average college curriculum; yet there are those of acknowledged ability who claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest development of every mind than...
...fact of such worthiness should be more fully established than is generally the case), it deserves a distinct and appropriate description, and not one made up of cast-off metaphors and worn-out expressions that have already served to describe similar occasions, time out of mind...
...that in the earlier part of our Academic year students are favored with a respite from hard work, when they do not need it nearly as much as at a later period. The short suspension of recitations at Thanksgiving, and the Christmas vacation, are, at least by the undergraduate mind, considered as customs productive of much good. Were it possible to devise some method by which a few days' rest could be given at a time intermediate between January and the latter part of June, it would most certainly be beneficial to students and instructors...