Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among all our colleges Dartmouth ranks high for a healthful virility that, somehow, suggests physical soundness as well as mental vigor. The president has recorded himself as among those who find a legitimate and happy union in the development of muscles as well as of brains in a college course. And again he touches upon a matter which student or non-student can find of equal concern. The loss of the race through lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide...
...lead him anywhere. But the tremendous forces that have made Ferguson what he is have left him where he refuses to see the scholar if the man is not there. It is said that he will learn nothing. No candid observer could claim that the outward signs of mental accretion are overwhelming, but in private conversation Ferguson displays at times a disconcerting clearness of vision, and a wealth of real understanding about a lot of things that he regards as important. . . . "One great need ... is a good 'contact man'-someone who can interpret the college to Ferguson...
...processes. Were the public ready, it could hear of as tragic a perversion of normal instincts, as hopeless and tremendous a struggle against them as was ever made. But no, the psychiatrists had to lower their voices, and even then they were prevented from telling all they knew. . . . The mental and emotional processes by which we first come to recognize the difference between our current standards of right and wrong, and then act upon that knowledge, are shrouded in complete darkness." Lawyers as a body are not, at any rate as yet, very sympathetic to this explanation of human conduct...
...Farrell, perspiring heavily with his exertions, blamed the teaching of evolution for the Franks murder in Chicago, said: "We are suffering from acute mental and spiritual intoxication," said "To save the world for God, we all must use drastic methods," wiped his brow, concluded: "We will now sing Hymn...
Wine of Youth. Rachel Crothers' play Mary the Third has been poured into the cinema mold and turned out in the old, familiar fashion. There was a note of uncertainty in the original that reminded one of A Doll's House and gave the visitor a mental bone to gnaw. But the mentality of cinema audiences is not nourished on bones. They are supplied with oozing fritters drenched in the syrup of the happy ending. The story has to do with three generations of married life, with various reflections on modern youth. Eleanor Boardman is an acceptable heroine...