Word: mental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...McCosh holds weekly library-meetings for the discussion of topics connected with mental science...
...term "liberal advantages" has among most of our students a meaning quite foreign to that prevalent in the outer world. To us it implies not only favorable opportunities for developing our mental qualities, but also a certain liberality in choosing to take advantage of such opportunities. To be careless about our studies, to look down upon any show of energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges...
...Intercollegiate Literary Association announces for this year examinations in Latin and mental science in addition to the contests in oratory and essay-writing and the examinations in Greek and Mathematics. The subjects for essays are: "The Federalist Party in the United States," and "Hawthorne's Place in Literature...
...basis of this argument is the variability of human brain-power. This makes the system of marking solely on two three-hour examinations very unfair. For it is certainly not right, since no instructor or student is exempt from this condition of our mental and nervous constitution, to judge of a man's year's work by three hours' work of a brain which, acted on by many causes, favorable or unfavorable, may be either extremely active or extremely inactive at a time selected at random, so far as the individual student's health is concerned. Why should several...
...reflections on fashionable education; children, he deplores, are taught that "what they are is of little consequence, but what they appear to-be is of importance inestimable." Young men read novels, and the "sight of a classic author gives them a chill, a lesson in Locke or Euclid a mental ague." Young ladies "sink down to songs, novels, and plays." The reverend President is particularly severe towards the young ladies, and solemnly warns them that "between the Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass"; and then he paints quite a vivid...