Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dean Hawkes in his recent report outlined the system of mental tests in use in the college, and emphasized their importance as a measure of intellectual qualities. He then pointed out their weakness in ascertaining the new students' fitness for a particular course in a given department, and the resultant confusion and shifting of courses in the first few weeks of the fall term...
...impaired by the eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia. It is the mental gymnastics of Sherlock Holmes or the chemical fumblings of Craig Kennedy that delight, rather than their eventual (and predictable) triumphs...
...even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...turns-he got drawn into local politics and met the extraordinary Kangaroo, a plump, Semitic, would-be Messiah, who dreamed and plotted for an Australia as democratic and brotherly as the early Christian Church, bound together by the universal love of every man for his fellows. The mental struggle between Kangaroo and Somers was intense; in spite of Kangaroo's force Somers would not be converted. He, too, loved Australia, but not in Kankaroo's way-and when Kangaroo died after receiving several bullets in his marsupial pouch in the course of a riot, he felt...
Anyhow, in these rather terrifying surroundings, the will is read, and nobody has the slightest luck except Miss Annabel West, to whom everything falls unless she chances to be of unsound mind. Apparently she isn't, but how she comes through the rest of the play with all her mental equipment intact is the greatest mystery...