The Freshman and His College: A College ManualFrank Cummins Lockwood D. C. Heath & Company, 1913 - 156 páginas |
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... body . Nor will any one deny that youth is the best time to train the body as well as the mind . There is , too , a necessity for youth to exert its over - plus of energy in joyous physical exercise . The play impulse is natural to ...
... body . Nor will any one deny that youth is the best time to train the body as well as the mind . There is , too , a necessity for youth to exert its over - plus of energy in joyous physical exercise . The play impulse is natural to ...
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... body ; the legitimate pride and satis- faction that come from well - earned victory . And the real edge of this delight in victory comes from the realization that one has striven not so much for one's own glory as for the glory of the ...
... body ; the legitimate pride and satis- faction that come from well - earned victory . And the real edge of this delight in victory comes from the realization that one has striven not so much for one's own glory as for the glory of the ...
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... body , his brain , his soul are in your boyish hands today . He cannot help himself . Will you hand over to him a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation , a mind trained to think and act , a nervous system true as a dial in its response ...
... body , his brain , his soul are in your boyish hands today . He cannot help himself . Will you hand over to him a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation , a mind trained to think and act , a nervous system true as a dial in its response ...
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... host of prizes that otherwise we should lose . Final success goes to the few , the very few , alas , who throughout life keep mind and soul and body clean . AN ADDRESS TO FRESHMEN 1 BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE 24 The After - Self.
... host of prizes that otherwise we should lose . Final success goes to the few , the very few , alas , who throughout life keep mind and soul and body clean . AN ADDRESS TO FRESHMEN 1 BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE 24 The After - Self.
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... body now - a - days — make him strip and pass a physical examination , and thump him all over , then give him required courses in hygiene , and make him go through stunts in the gymnasium every day . I think it is time we taught him to ...
... body now - a - days — make him strip and pass a physical examination , and thump him all over , then give him required courses in hygiene , and make him go through stunts in the gymnasium every day . I think it is time we taught him to ...
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acquaintance ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN Arminian become believe body Bowdoin College brain century CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT college athletics college course course of study cross-country running cultivated culture DAVID STARR JORDAN demands discipline element engineering essential experience fact faculty feeling fellows field FRANCIS CUMMINS Freshman fundamental give graduates habits higher education human idea ideal idleness imagination institutions intellectual interest JOHN GRIER HIBBEN kind knowledge learned Leland Stanford liberal college liberal education literature living matter means ment mental merely method mind moral Nassau Hall nature nerve-cells never one's passion philosophy play possible practice President principles problems profes professional school Professor scholar scholarship scientific scientific method sense small college social special permission spirit student task teachers teaching things thought tion true truth WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE worth young youth
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Página 41 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 34 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Página 152 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best.
Página 38 - A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set
Página 39 - character,' as JS Mill says, 'is a completely fashioned will'; and a will, in the sense in which he means it, is an aggregate of tendencies to act in a firm and prompt and definite way upon all the principal emergencies of life. A tendency to act only becomes effectively ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the actions actually occur, and the brain 'grows
Página 151 - The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast...
Página 109 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order...
Página 51 - One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, ' He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Página 40 - As a final practical maxim, relative to these habits of the will, we may, then, offer something like this: Keep the f acidly of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
Página 37 - ... agree that abrupt acquisition of the new habit is the best way, if there be a real possibility of carrying it out. We must be careful not to give the will so stiff a task as to insure its defeat at the very outset; but, provided one can stand it, a sharp period of suffering, and then a free time, is the best thing to aim at, whether in giving up a habit like that of opium, or in simply changing one's hours of rising or of work. It is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be...