Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio of the energy applied to the power ultimately delivered. If the two are identical, the efficiency is zero...
Commercial stock-takings are valuable, but mental balancings of accounts are no less necessary for success. A business house that proceeded without weighing its assets and liabilities at regular intervals would invite financial disaster, and a man who does not occasionally compare what he is with what he wants to be, is equally sure to fail...
...fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such a point of view will receive a blank stare and the answer that your inability to see in itself proves the national mental inferiority as exampled in you. That is a fairly unanswerable argument; the old one of saying a man is a fool because he is not wise enough to see he is a fool...
...which is neither work nor play--but just nonsense. It stimulates the appreciation of gravity by way of contrast, and without fuel of this sort, enthusiasm for serious ideals might wane. Like all curatines, it should be taken with moderation, yet its advantageous qualities must not be denied. Our mental and spiritual health demands a licensed escape from responsibility logic and accuracy...
...ever losing sight of Princeton or Yale, may well regard the Cornell game today as important. The Cambridge team, moulded as it has been mainly from green and inexperienced material, received a shock in its recent game with Tufts, and there can be no discounting the value of the mental stimulation and confidence for the late season that may come from a satisfactory result against Cornell today...