Word: saying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mind or soul to body. When the body withers the mind withers. Swoon and sleeping are instances of this. Thought is the product of the brain though not in the sense that bile is the product of the liver. And here he said, "There will be much I say which cannot be demonstrated. However, I do think that thought can be proved as the product of the brain, which is the seat of thought. There are two elements-the manifoldness of the brain, and the unity of consciousness. Consciousness is always a unit. These two elements cannot be connected...
...reply to your letter of December 3 asking us to arrange with Cornell for a boat race at New London next June, I would say that Yale intends hereafter to row with Harvard, and with no other American University...
...most free from hazing, rushing, and other customs which were universal before the introduction of athletics. There is a superabundance of energy in the average young man which demands an outlet. The energy which might otherwise be wasted is concentrated on intercollegiate sports, and it is safe to say that far more good than harm is the result. Until some better outlet is suggested, the best thing the colleges can do is not to abolish the system, but to try to eradicate the evils which we know to exist...
...study and teach these languages. It is by developing new methods of teaching subjects that colleges make teachers best equipped for their work. To turn to another subject: How long have our own men been systematically trained for the profession of pedagogy? How few I will not venture to say. Is teaching a profession, when the majority of teachers are elected once a year? Is it a profession when more than 33 per cent. are replaced every year? There are a few men and women who look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however...
...Linn writes me as follows: "In reply to your question concerning this article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else...