Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the other books are "The Sense of Immortality," by Philip Cabot '94, "The Philosophy of Character," by Edgar Pierce '92, and "A Present Day Conception of Mental Disorders" by C. H. Campbell...
...intelligence tests do not necessarily reveal genius. They merely indicate marked capacity to learn", said Dean H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, commenting on the recent mental tests conducted by his school, which resulted in the selection of Miss Muriel Black, 24 year old Plymouth working girl, as an example of unusual mental brilliancy...
...having got "Richard Kane" into this predicament, by half-fledging the wings of his spirit and not developing his practical mental legs, educators almost qualify, says Mr. Edman, for the title the Athenians gave Socrates- "corrupter of youth." Not that Edman stands advocate for courses in horseshoeing, manicuring, potato culture or space-selling; but he sees a possibility for "following the example of certain recent journalistic enterprises"-combining both the cultural traditions and the practical discipline of education- and "retaining the best features of each...
...building of a more airy, lighter prison at Joliet are quite in accord with modern humanitarian impulses, but a more fundamental progress is revealed by news items in Massachusetts papers. All the county jails are to be visited by psychiatrists and social workers who will investigate the mental conditions of the prisoners. Yet a mere report will accomplish little...
...balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour beer" attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement, and to give a truthful picture of the mental antithesis peculiar to a man leaving his alma mater. It is one of the few student poems that will linger in my memory...