Word: mental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...events in the inner life of some people. Secondly, I shall describe a few experiments that are probably to be explained as instances of what is generally called "unconscious cerebration." Thirdly, I shall give a part of the evidence of the existence of a not generally recognized species of mental experience, which stimulates presentiment, but which is not presentiment. Finally, I shall come to the apparently telepathic coincidences and shall endeavor to give an estimate of their value. Professor Royce then read several communications on the subject of hallucinations and remarkable dream impressions. He finished by reading some communications regarding...
...international law; G. W. Sawin, A. M., in mathematics; W. R. Thayer, A. B., in English; George P. Baker, A. B., in English; D. J. H. Ward, Ph. D., in philosophy; F. C. Huntington, A. B., in political economy; Robert Sanderson, in French; Theodore W. Fisher, M. D., on mental diseases...
...Naville at Bubastis in April. Our museums need an American to do similar work for science, to interpret 'things hard to be understood,' to tabulate coins, and indeed to deal understandingly with the many kinds of Egyptian antiques. We have important private collections wherein mines of knowledge await the mental pick and spade of the trained investigator...
...first article, by Mr. A. T. Dudley, '87, on "The Mental Qualities of the Athlete." is an admirable treatment of the subject. The writer attributes the success of certain men in athletics to the fact that there is inborn in them a certain impulse which tells them the right thing at the right time. It is a peculiarity, he thinks, of the nervous organization. Training perfects the action of this impulse. Mr. Dudley further attempts to prove that the mental training of the athlete is peculiarly fitted for training the student for the business of life, but we think that...
...historical department involved a considerable change in Mr. Young's work. It is believed that the severe labor bestowed in preparing his lectures on the early constitutional history of France, a course given by him for the first time this year, has much to do with bringing on the mental derangement which resulted in his death...