Word: mental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Special attention is called to the explanation of certain tests of quickness which are now being made by Dr. Fitz at the Physiological Laboratory. It may not appear at first thought that these tests have anything about them which is connected with education, physical or mental. Yet they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest...
...Existing rules provide against professionalism as far as rules can do so; the four year rule. (b) Intercollegiate rivalry furnishes a proper incentive to the sport. (c) There is unusual discipline for developing desirable qualities (1) mental and moral, (2) physical. (d) Such developement should play a larger rather than a smaller part in education...
...life of man! In explaining the complexity of this life, with its ever varying outward forms, and its development in countless directions, analysis must always fail; for the analytical and mechanical methods of examining nature of necessity neglect one side, and that the most important, of natural life,-the mental side. Naturalists confess that the field of mind lies beyond their reach...
...Human Skeleton," with illustrations showing the mechanism of bone and anatomical peculiarities; Dr. Clarence Blake on "Testing the Hearing;" Dr. Myles Standish, on "Testing the Vision;" Dr Elliot G. Brackett, on "Spinal Curvature and Its Treatment by Aid of Gymnastics;" Dr. Edward Cowles, on "The Physical Basis of Mental Life;" Dr. George W. Fitz, Elementary and Experimental Physiology;" Dr. Lena V. Ingraham, on "Diseases of Women and Their Treatment Through Physical Agencies;" Dr. Samuel G. Webber, on "Marriage and Its Applications...
Lecture. On some Special Devices for Mental Training. Professor Josiah Royce. Sanders Theatre...