Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light musical comedy is definitely past, Professor Phelps catechized his class in Contemporary Drama at Yale shortly after the spring recess and made the startling discovery that the modern university undergraduate no longer follows in the dreary wake of the t. b. m. Elevated drama is now the mental restorative of the jaded scholar, and girl and music shows and boisterous revues are relegated to the limbo which conceals the Gaiety and the Old Howard...
...United States as those qualities which are generally believed to make up the sterling character of the Mayflower descendant. Its synonymity in the mind of the average citizen with "cleverness" is sufficiently illuminating. The French, on the other hand, enjoy an international reputation as seekers after the absolute in mental capability at all possible costs...
...Haskins Hon. '08; "Men and Policies," an eighth volume of Elithu Root's collected addresses; "The Philosophy of Character," by Edgar Pierce '92; a masterly volume on the naval history of the World War, by Thomas G. Frothingham; another monograph in the Harvard Health Talks, "Present day Conceptions of Mental Disorders," by C. M. Campbell," and an entirely new translation of Montaigne, by George B. Ives...
...committees are little by little coming into actual existence. The dreary descriptions penned by Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing...
...same time, the present wave of disbelief and somewhat defiant agnosticism may possibly be due to something besides mental growing pains. To say that present day conditions are a bit out of the ordinary and therefore explanatory of much, is undoubtedly a sickening truism; but like most painfully obvious remarks it is also true, and is something which short sighted critics who are of the elder generation could remember to advantage when flaying their juniors for non-conformity. The church does well which recognizes this abnormality and which goes to those most concerned for suggestions on how best to handle...