Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William A. White, well-known American psychoanalyst, and superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the government institution for mental diseases, under whose care the Washington experiments have been made, is less sanguine, but believes that there is considerable hope from the malaria treatment...
Prince Jujinaro Yamashina, third son of Prince Kikumaro Yamashina, caused a mental earthquake in society circles by entering the Imperial University at Tokyo as a student of literature. Imperial princes in the past have invariably entered either the military or the naval service. Prince Yamashina is the first member of the Royal Family to break the convention by entering a university. He is a graduate of the peers' school...
...that the larger objective is to build a University which will "attract the more ambitious intellects". But the whole move is made on the assumption that examinations and school records will select the more ambitious intellects and not merely the more capacious. Furthermore, it seems to assumes that purely mental training is the whole function of a college. It neglects the old idea that a liberal education should concern character and appreciation as well as learning. The question seems pertinent. Does Harvard want to give a true liberal education...
...committee concludes that it is all a matter of scholarship--and it proceeds to suggest a raising of entrance requirements on the basis of studies alone. Its ideas in that direction are constructive, and will undoubtedly accomplish their immediate purpose--that of cutting out those who are mentally unfit. The fact that grades are only a partial index of mental capacity is a truism which the committee has been obliged to ignore...
Would it not be much better if, instead of a lecture schedule in his mind, the student rose each morning with the thought of the day before him for uninterrupted study, writing and thinking? He would then have an opportunity to do his mental work when his mind was in its most active and alert condition. During the middle of the afternoon he might go out for his athletics (or sports) and have his social relaxation at tea and dinner. Then at seven-thirty or eight he might attend his lectures and classes, which with his laboratory, might last until...