Word: mental
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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yale University receives $40,000 from the will of Mrs. Fogg, the income to be used in the Theological department, to aid such theological students as shall be especially worthy of receiving it by reason of their mental ability, character and scholarship. $20.000 is given to the University of the City of New York, to be applied in giving greater advantages to the honor scholars of every year. The Union Theological Seminary has two bequests of $20,00 each. To the Berwick Academy of South Berwick, Me., Mrs. Fogg's birthplace, $50,000 is given...
...hard to understand the mental attitude of those students who can sell their fellow-students grand stand tickets for today's game at an advance in price and attempt to maintain their self-respect. Speculating in tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates...
...sympathy to a wonderful degree. It is a scene from the lives of two Germans, a brother and a sister, between whom there existed the truest affection. The first break in the joy of their association comes when a suitor appears for Anna; but he, after a mental struggle on her part is put aside, for Anna has promised to remain always with Kiaus. Another cloud appears when the daughter of an old friend is taken to their home. Susanna is a pretty girl, utterly wanting the sturdy, unselfish character of Anna Maria, yet with whom Klaus falls hopelessly...
...address opens with a description of the Graduate Department. He sets forth the reasons which have led Harvard to take a more advanced position with regard to mental training than that of most American colleges. These have hitherto contented themselves with filling the mind with a superficial culture which finds vent in the platitudes of average commencement parts. The crying need in this country is for the development of the "modern scholar" in the true sense of the word. By means of the elective system and of advanced courses, Harvard is unabled to bring about in its graduate students ripe...
...George Santayanna Ph. D., philosophy; G. H. Parker S. B., zoology; W. G. Thompson A. B., forensics; J. C. Wait, C. E., S. M., surveying and drawing; in re-appointing for 1890-91, D. D. Slade M. D., lecturer on comparatively osteology; T. W. Fisher M. D., lecturer on mental diseases; S. H. Durgin M. D., lecturer on hygiene; H. P. Quincy M. D. instructor in histology; J. J. Putnam, M. D., in diseases of the nervous system; E. G. Cntter M. D., in the theory and practice of physics; E. H. Bradford, M. D., in surgery and orthopedics...