Word: mental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sleeplessness. Every organ and tissue in the body must have rest, or they soon become worn out. The heart must make use of the intervals between beats to obtain necessary repose. The cause of sleep is the using up of potential energy. When we are fatigued by excessive mental labor, prolonged sleep will not bring the needed relief. The causes of sleeplessness are, excessive study; underfeeding and improper food; breathing impure air; neglect of exercise; and worry. Strong coffee and tea are productive of insomnia. Alcohol when taken in small quantities, keeps one awake; when taken in large quantities...
...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...
...admissable, there seems no more place for two school systems in this country than for two forms of government. Some good reason should exist for a double school system such as the country now possesses. The reason cannot be that the public school is deficient in moral or mental training, for if a tree is to be judged by its fruit, the school system of the state suffers nothing by contrast with the system of any church...
...well enough to show that we have more students than any other college, that we have the ablest professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects our bodies. As the office of the director of the gymnasium...
...point of an alleged funny story in last night's Record is lost in the mental effort to find why the Medical students were returning to Harvard Square...