Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credited, scholastic brilliance is the "last infirmity of noble minds", and stupidity the most coveted of encomiums. In their searching compilations of the biographies of great men, they find that Genius has been largely accustomed to growing up "study free." Napoleon looms out with a colossal capacity for mental vacuity, and the moral is obvious; set a lazy man to catch a dullard. Wellington was notoriously lazy. Blucher, by some mysterious prefiguration, early showed signs of his later forte by earning for himself the sobriquet of the "last-place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position...
...eugenics, scientific research, preferential reproduction, art, and internationalism. Special emphasis is placed upon the importance of the socialization of science, of the humanizing of industry, of the trusting of intelligence, and the necessity of philosophical reconstruction. The book is concluded with a chapter on the ethical outlook; giving the mental habits necessary for the new approach to the important problems suggested by Mr. Wiggam...
...Hardwick '15 said that football was beneficial in four ways: the physical and mental training; the moral training; the opportunity of being an integral part of Harvard; and the business asset. "The term 'yellow'," he said, "can be as aptly applied to studies as to football. Failures in studies can usually be attributed to nothing but laziness and lack of ambition...
Under the guise of Juryman Seven Fannie Hurst has pronounced the verdict that "the mental stature of a very large part of the public is that of a moron and more startling still that "the public great overgrown baby--is--clamoring for its bananas...
...satisfactory story. But this routine type of writing can get into a man's blood, become instinctively necessary to him. The following is a story which complies with newspaper tradition: "Los ANGELES-Suffering from the effects of a fractured skull, from which he never recovered his mental powers, Frank C. Kingsland, newspaper man, committed suicide at a downtown hotel by shooting himself in the temple. His death was instantaneous...