Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have on our hands the insane and the 22% of our population who will never reach eleven years in mental age. They will all vote, and the highly intelligent, 15%, who think they know more than their leaders...
...other comparable characteristic are, if persistent checks on full mastery in teaching; not so much, so, however, as such things as over self-confidence conceit, and prolix fluidity of utterance. My own observation leads me to believe that if one has enthusiasm, selfless consecration, to his task, robustness of mental outlook, and keeps his mind on the fellow that he is trying to teach, diffidence, self-consciousness, and hesitance will in time yield place to power. It is the enduring attitude with which one goes at his job that counts most...
...always gratifying to read in the columns of a university paper a comment on an international question such as your latest on the Japanese exclusion act (Editorial on June 3), for there is the possibility of remolding minds which have as a goal the present mental attainments of some of our senators and representatives who think they are glorifying their country by jeopardizing the friendly relations with a foreign country merely to make a display to the people back home of one of their 100 per cent 'isms. If the student of today is made to think internationally, the leader...
...opinion to the contrary is genuinely liberal, has created an atmosphere of surprising toleration and intelligence in the home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle lyrics of Miss Nathalia Crane, aged ten or eleven, who has just published "The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems", to the sound of subdued cheers from the press of the country...
...Macbeth. But the porter is a gentleman of refinement compared with this pudgy person with the pearl derby and the dancing hips. However, by shutting our eyes and listening to the music, we managed to enjoy this part, and soon the acrobatic lady came on and we recovered our mental poise...