Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...communication published in an adjoining column is worthy of comment because it represents what may be termed without giving offense the Tutoring School State of Mind. Its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten, that if he does not eat it there is a good chance it will fall to the ground and spoil, and ends by convincing himself that in taking the apple he has only made the most...
...quite sure that we know just what the term means. And it is probably more accurate to say that what The Arts promotes is interest, interest in the College as well as in the outside world, and interest in things material as well as in things mental. The program of the society should be as broad as its members' desire for selfcuture; the officers do well in making no attempt at restriction...
What is true in the professions is true throughout American life. The dominant desire is to develop on one line regardless of the consequences in everything else. It is possible to picture human beings of the next century, with the tendency towards specialization carried to its logical conclusion, as mental "side-hill gougers", so much shorter on one side than on the other that they can wind round a hill only...
...youth of ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called "conduct", which probably means that younger students...
...profession seems to him a limited and meagre affair, as contrasted with the large freedom and wide interests of undergraduate life. A man who has been, as an undergraduate, a member of a great University ought to go on to a professional school where his whole mental and moral life can run true to form; that means that his professional school ought to be an integral part of a University and if it is actually on the ground as is our case, so much the better...