Word: mental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arriving at this rating it was attempted to adopt the same mental attitude as one might adopt the same mental attitude as one might adopt in deciding upon college grades for academic work. A and B are the types whose bodily mechanics are commendable, while C and D are less satisfactory. The process points which we noted are as follows: Group A; Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head straight above chest, hips and feet. 2. Chest up and forward. 3. Abdomen in or flat. 4. Back usual curves not exaggerated. Group B; Fairly Good Mechanical...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...
...fundamental to a broad education, and the ordinary course at college does not supply that need. It must be left to the individual. Students are so used to having the fruits of learning passed them on a silver platter, that they often forget the necessity of enlarging their mental outlook by private thought and serious discussion...
...majority of the students entering Columbia this fall elected the new psychological tests for admission rather than the former system of taking written examinations. The tests, devised by Professor E. L. Thorndyke, formerly in charge of the psychological and mental tests in the United States Army, are composed of a series of thirty sets...
...file a complete school record, showing that they have completed satisfactorily the full requirements for admission to college, and that they have graduated from an acceptable secondary school, and can show a letter of recommendation from the principal of that school, they may then be permitted to substitute the mental tests for the entrance examinations...