Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...consequently are passive and docile in their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...
Before assignment to a training school applicants will be subjected to an examination by a board to determine their physical, mental and moral qualifications. A candidate will be required to state in writing that if he successfully passes his aviation tests that he will become an officer in the Aviation Section, Signal Officers' Reserve Corps. If the applicant successfully passes he will be recommended to the officer in charge of the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, who will appoint him a noncommissioned officer and will place him on active duty up to the time his course is finished. If the applicant...
...established there. Over 100 Amherst men have signified their intention of entering a course in United States military regulations and requirements under the supervision of Captain H. W. Fleet, U. S. A. By a series of short lectures and practical demonstrations there men will be prepared to pass the mental examination for the officers' reserve corps...
...European belligerents in the early stages of the war, the Government has outlined a plan for the organization of flying units throughout this country, certain restrictions being placed upon applicants for training and commissions as aviators in the Signal Corps. All applicants must pass both a physical and mental examination, a year or more in college being sufficient to pass the latter requirement. Those who are received for training at one of the Government schools, of which several have already been established, are ranked as sergeants and if they are accepted as regular commissioned officers after their periods of training...
...strong and self-confident opinions and positive expression, he was a kindly spirit, hospitable, generous, appreciative of others. His mental energy seemed limitless, his industry tireless, his optimism unquenchable. He exemplified his own ideal of productive scholarship, and carried to the grave with him plans for more books than most of us would think of achieving in a lifetime