Word: mental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year of college life serves to fix the mental activity of the coming graduate more than any other of the four undergraduate years. It is, therefore, highly important that a selection of senior courses should include those which, at the same time that they instruct, serve also to polish the student's education. Such courses are pre-eminently those which are stamped with the individuality of the instructor, and which, therefore, are most likely to come under the head of advanced electives. Take, for the sake of an example, Philosophy 4 and Fine Arts 4, courses the life...
...subject being Anthropology, or the Scientific Method Applied to Man; including an historical sketch of the new science, its method and scope; the anthropological method illustrated by special subjects, such as the old and new ideas of the world, man's age in the world, his physical and mental development, the question of progress or retrogression: sociology and the development of the social condition; and advantages to be gained from anthropological study. The lectures will be open to the public...
...subject being Anthropology, or the Scientific Method Applied to Man; including an historical sketch of the new science, its method and scope; the anthropological method illustrated by special subjects, such as the old and new ideas of the world, man's age in the world, his physical and mental development, the question of progress or retrogression: sociology and the development of the social condition; and the advantages to be gained from anthropological study. The lectures will be open to the public...
...will be held at Clark University, at least not during the first few years. If, later on, it becomes advisable to hold such courses, the necessary steps will be taken. The students will be graduates of other colleges, and will go to Clark University to take advanced courses in mental and physical science, instead of going to German universities as is the present custom. The object is thus to establish an American university which will be able to vie with European ones...
...conclusion, we advise no one to pursue a systematic course of "cramming," A man who studies the larger part of a night before an examination enters the examination room with impaired mental faculties, unable to express forcibly or well the substance ground up the previous nigh. A clear mind with a few facts is of more avail than a muddled head with an interminable jumble of confused statistics...