Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spring time is the time for house-cleaning. With the impetus given by the faculty in cleaning out a large number of near-brainless wonders, and students who failed to climb the academic grade, a mental house-cleaning of every individual should be easy...
...like manner, Yale's move will open her doors to many more students. But is Yale going too far? Is not Latin so closely bound to our language and those of the European continent that a knowledge of it is essential to an understanding of modern speech? Can the mental training derived from the study of Latin in preparatory schools be substituted by any other course? This innovation may remove Yale from her place as a maker of leaders of men as thoroughly as though she had reinstated Greek...
...drew intellectual stimulus from enormously wide reading in classical and modern literatures. Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair. The firm moral consistency of Puritanism was always his, yet his playful remarks about belonging in a hospital for incurable...
...thoroughly prepared nation in the war," said Professor Munro, "but her cause was wrong and her military strength availed her nothing." The next point brought out was the necessity of avoiding war in the future, while the last two dealt with the lesson of the war as regards education, mental and physical." The government did not realize," he said, "the number of physical and mental defectives there were until it began examining men for the Army. The system of education must be improved...
...liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class; in the latter he is forming a habit which will eventually depreciate him in the eyes of all good citizens when, perforce, he becomes a member of the body politic...