Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hiss me when I declared for tax reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...therefore, will probably be absent, and the diffusion of cultural education "to all members of society" may be much slower than expected. Certainly, the more such knowledge can be spread, the better; and if an aristocracy of brains can be succeeded by a democracy with the same level of mental attainment, the millenium will be near...
...other hand, the talk of making colleges mere laboratories for the lecture-publisher is not alarming. The colleges will always retain their function of supplying the mental stimulus for true education; and unless there is this stimulus, any number of bales of printed lectures is so much paper and little else. If the time has come when the printed lecture can supplant the spoken lecture, can arouse as much interest, command as undivided attention, the colleges will do well to revise their courses and weed out their lecturers. The personality of a great professor is often the determining factor...
...cause you any mental effort to read "The Nervous Wreck". I strongly suspect, in fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went...
Almost any discussion is a good thing. A real argument indicates mental activity at least, whether either side knows any relevant facts or not; one is forced to think, and think fast if one means to impress a critical--often hypercritical audience. This is more particularly true when there is vigorous opposition, so the maximum benefit on this score may not be obtained at the Citizenship Conference, when everyone will probably represent the same point of view...