Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...professors. The crux of the question is this: the college man is just about in his prime physically and can performs athletic feats as well as they can be done; the undergraduate scholar, on the contrary, is just beginning to ripen intellectually and does not attain his full mental development until many years after graduation. Hence undergraduates and the public are not interested in puerile performances, which represent only training for higher things, whereas they are intensely interested, in athletic performances that cannot be bettered...
While subject to deep mental depression, Whitcomb Field '05 shot himself at Roseburg. Oregon, yesterday. After his Junior year in College, he went on an anthropological expedition to Arizona on which he caught typhoid fever, and was subject after his recovery to periodic depressions in one of which he took his life...
...proper time and the tendency to hum rather than pronounce the words. If the singing is to be at all satisfactory, these defects must be remedied and this can be done only by practice. To learn the words of the old songs would not require an extraordinary mental exertion and would make the concerted singing much more effective. Furthermore, all should enter into the songs as though they wanted the opposite stands to hear them, and should strive by attention to the leader to begin on the proper note and to enunciate the words clearly so that those...
...Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard or Harvard College Scholarships are--from the point of view of mental capacity and scholarly inclinations--the picked lot of a picked lot of a picked...
...This departure marks the beginning of the final phase of a season that has been long and strenuous. In the period of training to come the work will be the most severe of the entire season, for every member of the squad will be subjected to the physical and mental strain of preparation incident to a Yale race. We extend our best wishes to the crews who are leaving for the scene of final preparation and sincerely hope they will succeed in every respect in bringing the season to a fitting close...