Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of the Scientific Assembly presented an almost complete cross-section of present currents in scientific medicine, organized in 15 sections: practice of medicine; general and abdominal surgery; obstetrics and gynecology; ophthalmology; laryngology, otology, and rhinology; pediatrics; pharmacology and therapeutics; pathology and physiology; stomatology; nervous and mental diseases; dermatology and syphilogy; preventive and industrial medicine and public health; urology; orthopedic surgery; gastroenterology and proctology...
...what is true of Harvard is, in the main, true of nearly all the colleges. The old prejudice against college men in business is vanishing. Every year there are more demands for men either with the special knowledge in a given field or with the mental training which is the product of the best college education. Many institutions turn more and more to "practical" education, heeding the dislike of business men for the "unessentials." Against this tendency some of the larger universities have steadily striven, holding that it is for the graduate schools to concentrate on "vocational" training, and that...
...urged to take a year or more at the Business School. In the old days youngsters who could not make up their minds just how they would set about conquering the world were urged to go for a year or more to the Law School to benefit from the mental discipline there to be derived. Recently the number of Harvard men going to the Law School has declined. This may be an indication that the "floaters" are drifting into the Business School. Modern business is in reality becoming a profession in which a broad training and thorough technique will...
...view, as any acquired in the professional schools. That literature, the classics, philosophy, history may have a permanent value in themselves scarcely needs an argument and is brought forcibly home to anyone who comes in contact with an Oxford graduate. These men seem able to secure not only the mental discipline which comes from sustained study but to make an integral part of their education the subject matter itself. They manage to come out scholars and gentlemen and pretty good judges of practical matters as well...
...tendencies in most American institutions of learning is for the student to set himself too far apart from the community; to make himself an aristocrat, not of letters but in a narrow view of life, limited to chapter politics and strivings for student leadership, not on lines of mental development, but of boyish rivalries elevated to undue importance, forgetful of the world he must face when the four years' course is ended. The usual student in the American college is lamentably minus as a coming citizen. He does not read the newspapers. His current knowledge is of the slightest...