Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actions as that taken by the University of Tennessee; but the criticism of subservience and timidity among the student bodies must come from the undergraduates themselves. Certainly one effective means of causing such discussion and analysis is a constant exposure of the illiberal attitude into which, through want of mental energy and alertness collegiate bodies are likely to fall...
...provocative possibilities of its background. The play acted much better than it read when published recently in the American Mercury, but it maundered gloomily through scenes wherein a Negro of no great ability married a white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson, a Negro of exceptional scholastic and athletic prowess while at Rutgers, played the black man; Mary...
Puffer's one bad inning and several atrocious errors, mental and physical, on the part of his supporters gave Dean Academy a 6 to 5 victory over the Harvard seconds on the Freshman Field yesterday. The undefeated visitors came near having their streak broken, as the seconds got a four-run lead in the first two innings and a ninth inning flare-up just missed reversing the outcome...
...results of his latest researches in the field of insanity. Dr. Laird apparently has no scruples about publishing his gruesome findings. Without a single quiver of sympathy, he asserts that whereas only one man in fourteen hundred and one woman in eighteen hundred outside universities are subject to mental disorders, the percentage within academic walls is a great deal higher; to be accurate one out of every thousand...
...reason which Dr. Laird assigns in the kindness of his heart for this sinister state of affairs is that college students go mad because they live a "highly competitive intellectual existence, and any mental handicap is quickly noticed." One would like to think so. Unfortunately, however, the unprejudiced observer is driven to the conclusion that though this may be a contributing cause, the real reason is not to be found in so superficial an examination. It is also obvious that the Colgate scientist has not had the benefit of a heart to heart talk with Mr. F. H. Hoffman...