Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...site of Inca University, but which it has taken time to correlate and interpret. The result is an enlightening account of the refectories and outside caravansaries where the students ate their meals. Unbelievable as it may seem, it is an established fact of physiology that a man's mental capacity is vitally affected by his diet. From a survey of the restaurants, dining-halls, and food-shops in the vicinity, even in their present ruined condition, we can glean some significant facts about the student life, and the probable physique of the men at the university...
...Shun the New England conscience!" is one of the ten rules for avoiding nervousness laid down by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in the current number of "Mental Hygiene." The New England conscience, he says, is a form of egotism that makes a moral issue of every trivial thought or feeling. It takes the adventure out of life and puts in its place all manner of safety-first devices which warp the mind of the possessor...
This is probably the first time that the New England conscience has been thus publicly pilloried by a medical man writing of mentally overwrought conditions. Those who have suffered from this peculiar inheritance often have inveighed against it privately and have fought against it as hard as their ancestors fought for it. But they so far have had few champions to take up the cudgels in their behalf. Those psycho-analysts who have studied New England cases have recognized some of the evils of this strange mental heritage, but they have given little comfort to its victims...
...joys and gloom. It is forever stepping up and saying "No!" and tends to associate a sense of guilt with all innocent amusement. It fights against idleness as against one of the cardinal sins. It considers all rest as probably wrong and seeks to drive its victims to incessant mental activity...
...make the most of their opportunities by graduating "viser but not vider" as Mr. Weller expressed it. Others who barely pass their C.E.E.B.'s become the outstanding men in their class not only in social affairs but scholastically as well. As a remedy for this difficulty Columbia has instituted mental tests for admission and the Harvard Business School has also been experimenting with them in an effort to provide an equable basis on which to work...