Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to the hospital patients slightly disabled veterans who are unable to find work, men who have been cut off from their compensation due to failure to report for a stipulated physical examination, and tubercular and mental cases who prefer home treatment, all come under the scope of the Red Cross. Cambridge men stranded in other cities and residents of different places unable to get home because of lack of funds may receive loans from this organization, while foreign-born or illiterate soldiers receive assistance in filing papers and in securing means of employment. The Red Cross thus assists...
...service would increase, but the war brought out so many new weapons, gas, high-explosive shells, etc., with which we had never had any experience, that the results were beyond our comprehension. Many men who apparently came out untouched are developing tuberculosis as a result of gas, and serious mental disorders as a result of shell shock. It is predicted that the peak of the tuberculosis problem will be reached in 1925, while it will not be until 1928 that the peak of mental disorders will come. This situation, together with the unemployment problem, brings on the troubles...
...clock.--Emerson G. "Truth in Medicine" and "Mental Reservation" by Professor R. C. Cabot. Social Ethics...
...means the first time that the scientist has undertaken to prove that he is a man of business, capable of extracting a livelihood from the public by across-the-counter transaction. But the work of this corporation is something new. By means of psychological tests calculated to reveal the mental capacity of a candidate for a position, it will be able to tell the business man whom to hire, and why. If he wants an executive or clerk all he has to do is to send his candidates to the office of the Psychological Corporation; they will come back properly...
...important to allow time for gaining a knowledge of this world ought to emphasize its value. It would be a fine thing if the tradition should grow up that Seniors shall devote most of their time to reading and other non-material pursuits, so as to reap the mental recreation earned by their three years of more concentrated study. With the tutorial system already firmly established in one department, with the general divisional examination for all but scientific degrees, with a judicious regulation of the stringency of concentration and distribution requirements, and, finally, this added freedom given to Seniors...