Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving an oftrepeated lecture which commonly leaves them so exhausted as to greatly handicap them in their work of creative scholarship. Surely note-taking and athletics on the part of the students and repetition of lectures on the part of the professors are not the scale of mental activity that should occupy the freshest and most vigorous periods...
Aware that mental pleasures last the longer, the King has proceeded to make Shakspere accessible to his people. In a letter to Sir Sidney Lee, the Siamese Minister to the Court of St. James speaks of His Majesty as "an ardent admirer of your great national poet: he has himself translated several of the plays into Siamese." And, despite the fact that "love needs no language save its own," he has commenced with "Romeo and Juliet...
...school offers courses in the fields of Family Case Work, Child Welfare, Hospital Social Work, Mental Hygiene, Community Organization, Industry, Criminology, and Social Research. With a record of 25 years, the school is the oldest training institution for social workers in the United States...
...Mental sweatshops...
...writer of letters to the newspapers points out that children set to learn a trade do their learning during business hours whereas school children do most of their work at home. The result is that their homes are turned into " mental sweatshops," their parents are robbed of peace, and there results "much bickering and bitterness...