Word: mental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result in the resolution passed asking the Faculty to appoint a committee to investigate the plans proposed. The opinion expressed by the speakers at the meeting was unanimous, that whatever plan is ultimately adopted at Harvard not only is the general principle of physical training as closely connected with mental efficiency, an enlightened one, but also that those who succeed in increasing the general health of their bodies as well as that of their minds, should receive credit...
...custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
...Physical Training Department of the Harvard Summer School for 1897 there were seven lecturers, eighteen instructors, and nine student instructors. Lectures were given on thirteen subjects; such as, Applied Anatomy, Physical Training, Elementary and Experimental Physiology, Physical Basis of Mental Life, etc. In addition, practical class exercises were given in the following courses: Free Movements, Calisthenics, Light Gymnastics, Military Drill, Methods of Conducting Squad, Class or Division Exercises, Gymnastic Games, Delsarte Movements and Relaxing Exercises, Swedish Gymnastics, Heavy Gymnastics, Track and Field Athletics, Boxing, Fencing, Rowing, Swimming, Voice Training, and Special Exercises on the various Developing Machines of the Gymnasium...
...mental activity and imagination of the Greeks were stimulated by the very configuration of the landscape about them. Divided into communities by mountain ranges, they had a chance to develop along individual lines, to acquire a distinctive spirit of thought. The lines of the country are gentle and undulating, always suggesting what lies beyond. The coloring is of soft grays, pinks and violets, calling for the same restraint on the part of the artist as is shown by Nature herself. Everywhere one sees a combination of great variety with the utmost delicacy and refinement,- an effect which no sensitive imagination...
...general public is necessarily apt to think chiefly of Marshall Newell the athlete. The real loss which falls heavily upon the University and upon his friends and the community in which he lived, is the loss of Marshall Newell the man. Such sterling virtues as his, and such mental and moral worth deserve all the honor they can receive from any formal recognition. The service will be a sincere tribute to a character which will always be admired...