Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anecdote, to which the author's unusually stirring career lends itself. On almost every page we find him defending frail beauty with his fists, dodging shrapnel, seizing would-be suicides on the Thames embankment, solving-or attempting to solve-criminal mysteries. Of the intimacies of his life -his mental career-he says relatively little, save for occasional discussion of the psychic phenomena which are his chief interest...
Evening exercise has proved successful in athletic clubs and Y. M. C. A.'s all over the country. It is said that physical fatigue prevents mental exertion, but that mental fatigue is relieved by physical exertion. If this is true, no more pleasant recreation could be found after a day's study, than a strenuous game of squash topped off by a cold plunge...
...examinees were also asked to state their chosen life careers. Five-sixths of them had so chosen. In the new classification, it was found that boys headed for professions were far superior in mental equipment to all the others. Prospective farmers were second, salesmen and clerks third, clerical workers fourth, skilled artisans fifth, foremen and business executives last. Among the girls, prospective foremen and business heads led the rest, artisans were second, professional workers third, homemakers fourth, clerical workers last...
...other things, they show, as usual, that classical scholars have a higher average in all other subjects than do students who have not dipped into the rewarding, if difficult literatures of Rome and Athens. The inference seems to be that the classics are worthy of study merely for the mental training involved...
...Oldham and Company, B. P. Clark of the Plymouth Cordage Company, and F. P. Cox of the General Electric Company, commenced an investigation to determine whether a certain number of boys and girls could not be found among the various factory workers of New England, who, possessed of unusual mental ability, would never have the opportunity, due to home conditions, to use that inherent talent to full advantage. In cooperation with the Harvard Graduate School of Education 21 boys and girls were selected on the basis of recommendations, furnished by factory foremen and supervisors, to be carefully examined and tested...