Word: minds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...John Adams"; Thayer's "Cases on Constitutional Law"; Drake's "Landmarks of Boston"; Dowden's "Studies in Literature"; Abbott's "Shakespearean Grammar"; F. C. Lowell's "Joan of Arc"; Gardiner's "Story of Florence"; Calkins's "Problems of Philosophy"; Spencer's "First Principles"; Maudsley's "Physiology of the Mind"; Flynt's "Tramping with Tramps"; and others. This number, of course, is in addition to those which have disappeared temporarily and came back again. This year the second volume of Curtis's "Constitutional History," the third volume of Von Holst, Ball's "History of Mathematics," Thorpe's "Chemistry," volume...
...bits of verse are not noteworthy. The articles deserving of comment are the Editorial and Varied Outlooks. The first draws its theme from Mr. Wister's remarks, and then goes on to discuss the college career. The conclusion is dark College is a place to "broaden one's mind" but not through ineffectual pecking at all sorts of unrelated things, and not in "contact with men," which too often means becoming part of a clique. It is a place where we should learn to work as well as to play, where we should learn to enjoy work; and that will...
...petitioners should bear in mind the following eligibility rules: "All men who are candidates for the degrees of A.B. or S.B. in 1908, all men who have received or will receive their degrees as of the class of 1908, and all men who are fourth year special students shall be eligible to vote. In addition, men now in the University who entered with the class of 1908, and who are not officially registered with the class of 1908, may vote. No man who has voted in any previous Class Day election shall be eligible to vote." 1908 NOMINATION COMMITTEE...
...live in a constant condition of mental change, not always mental progress, but if the desire back of the change is good the upward striving in its reaction on the mind is bound to have a good effect on character. Will power is more enduring and capable of achievement than the power of the tides them selves. Too often we confound wishing and willing, but wishing ends in nothing and willing ends in achievement. Because often wishing is not changed into willing there result so many broken vows and half-carried-out resolutions. Our vows are not serious enough...
...because it recognizes ridicule as the best medicine to cure abuses. In this case the abuse seems to be in the brutality of the game of football, a point which occurs as often and even more pointedly than does the danger of the Boylston Street bridge. Apparently in the mind of the average layman the new rules have not been entirely successful in this respect at least...