Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character of the mental development of the child up to six is by no means purely or preeminently intellectual. Almost from the beginning it is social, emotional, moral and denotes the organization of a personality. The infant acquires perceptions and motor coordination; he is incorporating modes of behavior which do not, of course, constitute a mature personality, but which psychologically are at the core of personality...
...Gray deplores the absolute lack of a spirit of question and revolt in the mind of the average American college student. Charming he finds them, and quick witted, but intellectually docile. They seem to be conscious conformists, utterly without that fierce sense of mental rebellion and the desire for intellectual freedom that characterizes the youth of Europe. They appear to be destitute of originality, and to be quite willing to subscribe whole-heartedly to the outworn theories of the older generation...
...University is a matter of conjecture. Probably the immediate effect will not be great. But those interested in the system who have striven to make comparisons have felt that already the rapprochement has brought benefits. A system of education is after all, nothing but a type of mental architecture. If two competing plans for a building are presented to the expert at different times and places he finds comparison exceedingly difficult But if both are laid side by side in the same workroom then destructive criticism has some value, constructive criticism is possible, and only intolerant stubbornness or complacency...
...cause. Although table tipping and ghosts have largely gone out of fashion, the belief in spirits, or better, talking spirits, is stronger than ever. And where there is so much smoke, there ought to be a little fire. But Professor MacDougall has limited his study to the field of mental telepathy. Of this "though transference" there are so many evidences that few can doubt the existence of the phenomenon...
...second class of phenomena is sharply discriminated from the first. It deals with mental rather than physical manifestations,--which may best be described as the transfer of messages without the ordinary means of sense communication. There have been many famous mediums who have possessed this power., There is one, estimable lady still living in Boston, who while in a trance revealed the most extraordinary knowledge, which seemed to come from some deceased person. Both by hand and voice she was able to transmit messages seeming to come with certainty from persons no longer in the flesh...