Word: mental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Benedict will deliver the first lecture of the series of free public lectures offered by the Faculty of Medicine, Sunday afternoon, January 2, at 4 o'clock, at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston. The subject of the lecture will be "The Influence of Mental and Muscular Work on Nutritive Processes." This entire course of lectures is open to the public and no tickets are required...
...curriculum is chosen for the development of the mental capacity and the character of the cadet, who is put through a rigorous course of instruction and physical training, and who, at all hours of the day and night, is under the immediate supervision of a commissioned officer. He leads the strenuous and the simple life. The Academy believes that no man can command others until he has himself learned the strictest kind of discipline...
...fencing team was held in the Committee Room of the Union last evening. W. Hunt '11 spoke of the advantages of fencing as a lasting exercise, suitable for everybody. H. S. Breckinridge 3L. mentioned the benefits to be obtained from fencing, saying that it was exceptionally suited for testing mental as well as physical skill...
...athletic sports, and of intercollegiate contests conducted in a spirit of generous rivalry; and I do not believe that their exaggerated prominence at the present day is to be attributed to a conviction on the part of the undergraduates, or of the public, that physical is more valuable than mental force. It is due rather to the fact that such contests offer to students the one common interest, the only striking occasion for a display of college solidarity...
...classics recently spoke to his adviser in an apologetic tone of having elected a course in natural science, which he feared was narrowing. Such a state of mind is certainly deplorable, for in the present age some knowledge of the laws of nature is an essential part of the mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar...