Word: brains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...institute was started to give the young men and women of the plains and mountains a chance to train hand and brain at the same time, while earning their way by work in the shops or on the farm. All of the 100 students in the school do manual work for five hours each day, the boys in the blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, or on the farm; the girls in the laundry, kitchen, or dairy. Last year the work of the students made the institute almost self-supporting. Like the George Junior Republic, after which it is modelled...
...good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather the ability of the inventive and directing brain. Therefore there is no reason why laborers should receive a greater share of the proceeds of industry as wages, which many socialists claim they deserve...
...Francaise of the United States and Canada in procuring for him his present good fortune. In telling of the enchantment of Brittany, M. Le Braz continued, I am breaking with the traditions of the French lectures who have preceded me, who have spoken of Paris, which is indeed the brain of France, as if it were France itself. But perhaps it is well that Americans should know that there is another France--provincial France--not sufficiently appreciated and yet worthy of mature study. If Paris is the head of France then the provinces are the heart, and hence the proverb...
...graduation, the probability of better health and a longer life than the man who does not realize the priceless worth of a sound mind in a sound body. And this ancient phrase is supported by the soundest physiological research. For, roughly speaking, there are two portions of the brain, one of r muscles, another for the mind. If either is developed at the expense of the other, the result is an unbalanced mental state...
Head injuries.--Cases of concussion were frequent, both during practice and games. In fact, but two games were played during the entire season in which a case of concussion of the brain did not occur. There were several noticeable features in these cases. Frequently, the fact that a man had received a serious head injury was noticed by the surgeon from the side-lines before it was recognized by the players. This was due to the fact that a player might, apparently, automatically run through a considerable series of plays before his mates noticed that he was mentally irresponsible...