Word: mental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...several years many men prominently connected with the subject of physical training have been declaring that college football teams suffer far more often from the demoralizing effects of over-training than from any greenness due to insufficient work. Time and time again, it is claimed, players have sustained both mental and physical injury from the excessive amount of hard work to which they have been subjected...
...scheme rather than to ourselves; above all, it enlarges aethetic charity. It has seemed to me also that a foreign language, quite as much as a dead one, has the advantage of putting whatever is written in it at just such a distance as is needed for a proper mental perspective. No doubt this strangeness, this novelty, adds much to the pleaure we feel in reading the literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained...
...would urge, therefore, is that no invidious distinction should be made between the Old Learning and the New, but that students, due regard being had to their temperaments and faculties, should be encouraged to take the course in modern languages as being quite as good in point of mental discipline as any other, if pursued with the same thoroughness and to the same end. And that end is Literature, for there language first attains to a full consciousness of its powers and to the delighted exercise of them. Literature has escaped that doom of Shinar whcih made our Association possible...
...Whereas, We, as their fellow-students at Haverford College, were especially near to them and thus came to appreciate most fully the noble moral and mental traits which both possessed, and now feel all the more keenly the loss which all their friends sustain in the sudden ending of lives so full of promise; therefore...
Miss Alice C. Fletcher delivered an address at the Peabody Museum yesterday on "Indian Song in Relation to the Indian's Life and his Mental and Psychical Development." It was one of the series of Anthropological lectures, which have proved so interesting. Miss Fletcher said: The common supposition that Indian music is of a primitive order is altogether wrong. It is so unlike anything else that comparison is impossible. If it were to be classed among the great musical schools it might well be said to belong to the natural school. Indians break into song almost involuntarily and it seems...