Word: mental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Americans, he said, have two distinct and natural advantages; the mental qualities developed by your ancestors' contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...
...these men were theorists; far greater were the two teachers who exemplify the practice of learning, though they refrain from embodying it in any formal treatise, --Vittorino da Feltre and Guarino of Verona. Both founded schools in Italy and both, by advocating a liberal education--bodily as well as mental exercise, Greek as well as the Latin culture--together taught the many scholars who for centuries kept alive their fame. From these two men and their successors, Ferrara and Vittoria Colona, proceed the greater number of those scholars who afterwards carried the new learning out into the world, not only...
...solution of these race problems will be found when we learn to differentiate between accidental and essential race characteristics. We must learn to look not at physical but at mental traits in judging races. This the English are doing in Jamaica; they give fair government to the negroes, allowing them to govern themselves whenever possible, and, as a result, there is no negro problem. The same policy, Professor Royce said, would solve our Southern question...
...increased endowment. The writer finds that it is desirable to reduce the number, or rather "make . . . over into interested and active students" the "too many men here who live a life of athletic or ornamental leisure," to secure for the undergraduate something of that same vigorous and sustained mental training that accompanies study in the Law School, and by close contact between student and instructor obtain whatever advantages are now sometimes claimed for the smaller college. But these ends cannot be accomplished until in University's finances are in such condition that more assistants, and of even better quality...
...power of concentrated attention, a broad survey of the fields of study, together with a better knowledge of one's own powers and adaptations--these attainments, said Bishop Vincent, and most of all, intellectual discipline with the aim of symmetrical development, should be the ideals of youth. For mere mental vigor, without a well-balanced conscience, intellect, and will, is of little value...