Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom is not primarily because of the false grade that a student may get from using printed notes, although that is an important factor. I am considering chiefly the injury that the student is doing to himself. The object of a college education is the development of mental muscle. If Jones lifts the dumbbell, Smith's muscle is not strengthened. Similarly, if Smith passes an examina...
...pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study of glandular heredity advances far enough, many characteristics may be brought under control...
...Without foreign help the students in German universities are in danger of physical, mental, and moral starvation," said Dr. Broda yesterday in a special statement for the CRIMSON in regard to the Student Friendship Fund drive. Dr. Broda has been in Europe recently and, through personal observations he knows of the conditions of which he speaks...
Anna Christie is the story of a Swedish farm girl who has slipped from grace. She meets her old barge captain of a father; she falls in love with an Irish sailor. Both discover the moral wounds scarring her past. Their primitive mental equipment jarred by the discovery, they all but throw her back into the streets. Their final forgiveness is generally regarded as a flabby anticlimax...
...present play is a pleasant, artificial comedy; in as direct contrast as possible to the tragically philosophical "Life of Man." The purpose here is not to challenge mental passiveness or experiment with the audience's sensibilities, but simply and solely to amuse--a purpose in which it is successful...