Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain degree, with the practically unlimited time at his disposal. For unless it is driven to an unhealthy extreme, neither work nor play need occupy more than half one's leisure hours. Personal negligence alone can explain such one-sidedness. Whoever recognizes his physical unfitness or his mental bankruptcy has plenty of opportunity to redeem himself...
...cracked for matutinal ablutions and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining use of purchased literature perhaps means increasing dependence on the wonderful collection of books the University has made, and a general inclination to select the courses that are of a manual as well as mental nature, realizing the ideal of Dr. Eliot, who said that he would not rest content till most of the studies called on the student to use his hands as well as his head. --Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...essay that Professor Muensterberg contributed to the Illustrated a short time before his death. It analyzes the records of the men who were in his psychology class last spring and drags forward the belief of the psychologist that Harvard undergraduates do not make full use of their own mental attainments. It is remarkable that one man should have won a rating of 100 per cent. in Dr. Muensterberg's test, but it is likewise remarkable that so many of the other students fell far below that grade in the tests. A recitation of the dozen different experiments that were tried...
...winners of the Rhodes Scholarships are entitled to a three-years' residence at Oxford with a stipend of $1,500 a year. In making the award the judges not only take into consideration the candidate's mental and moral excellence, but also his physical fitness, a and "all-around" man being preferred. The scholar is elected by the Committee from among such persons as pause the qualifying examinations and fulfill certain conditions as to citizenship, age, residence and scholarship. The qualifying examinations for candidates from Massachusetts this year were held at the Medical School on October 3 and 5. Similar...
...thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator...