Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draft examinations of war times were a disappointing revelations. The average physical condition of the men was poor, and the mental alertness and energy were scarcely better. The training camps provide a month of hard, healthy, intelligent work. They are active recognition of the fact that book learning is a small part of education; that gool citizenship and high morale depend upon both mental and physical good health. They may do much to maintain a high domestic morale in a country, constantly, if not inevitably, subject to more or less peaceful invasion from Southern Europe and Russia. -Yale Daily News...
Answer: "Exercise is the finest cure I know of for poor circulation. Do plenty of walking, especially in the limelight. It has aided me greatly When you exercise do not rush madly for any specific destination for this will not bring the mental freedom and poise which are absolutely essential for complete recovery. Amble along gently and if you get any place in particular keep on going. You can't tell where you may land...
...discriminating taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
When one is precipitated, however, from that generality to the welter of the specific, to fundamentalism is one's own family, to mental astigmatism in the leaders of one's own country, to freedom of speech at a university, human fallibility is almost overwhelming; and all but the stoutest hearts wallow in a slough of despond. The transcendentalist had the happy faculty, which we unfortunately have not, of soaring over this mire from the cradle to the clouds...
...just what this mental regeneration is due is an interesting subject for speculation. The upheaval which resulted from the war undoubtedly was partly responsible; but it cannot explain every thing. A surge amount of the responsibility for this comparatively recent phenomenon can undoubtedly be laid to a lessening of the distance which separates the man in college from the world of affairs outside. A decade ago it was quite generally accepted that the four years which the student passed within the precincts of the university were almost as time wasted, if not worse; they gave him curious ideas which...