Word: mental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible to so few men, all except the elementary courses might as well be given up, and some subject of use to a greater number be substituted...
...sure, there are many differences between the college life of the present and the college life of an age when the student received what mental instruction could be crammed into him while he was under the charge of his gymnastic teacher, when the library, which owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...
...Transcript, having settled our mental condition, has begun upon our morals...
...Agamemnon. 2. Demosthenes and AEschines de Corona. 3. Greek Composition. In Latin, 1. Cicero de Officiis. 2. Lucretius de Rerum Natura, Book VI. 3. Tacitus's Germania, for which Halm's text will be used. They will also be examined in reading and translating Latin at sight. In Mental Science, I. Herbert Spencer's First Principles. 2. Herbert Spencer's First Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. In Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytics, Differential and Integral Calculus...
...half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess in matters of self-gratification...