Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ancient languages, for they have been a foundation rather than an end. As liberal movements have spread over the civilized world, and as the great mass of people has become more interested in the problems of the day, education is not reserved for scholars alone. While mental training becomes more identical with the acquisition of practical knowledge, the demand for instruction in Greek and Latin grows less. The closer the co-operation between universities and the commercial, industrial universe of today, the greater becomes the call for college graduates. To meet this call, and to meet it with men specially...
...discarded. That the greatest stronghold of Greek and Latin should not adjust its requirements until 1918 gives convincing proof of their durability. The demand for men whose training has been devoted entirely to success in business has caused an addition to the college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which has developed great minds in the past will develop them in the future. The worth of classics in this respect has been proved; nothing can lessen it. By the new policy they will not be supplemented...
...fight. Although some may take up their work where they left it, yet others must consider their education finished. Such soldiers will profit most from the university. Whether they return to studies or not, their future welfare often depends on their continuing, or at least, not forgetting their mental training...
...makes a mental note...
...been closed to enlistment for some time, the Naval Reserve Force of the Second Naval District is now open for 2000 recruits. All men desiring to be enrolled should, if possible, present themselves personally before the enrolling officer at the Naval War College, Newport, R. I., for physical and mental examination, or else at one of the Naval Reserve Recruiting Stations located at Providence, R. I., Brooklyn, N. Y., or Newark...