Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter with the colleges?" is proposed by a Bryn Mawr alumna in a recent communication to the Nation. She answers it with another question: "where is the whole panorama of college and university life in America today among men as well as women, is the courage and mental grasp to see what that is new in a rapidly changing world needs championing and support?" In humbler but more outspoken phrasing, she charges the colleges with conservatism and blindness to the radical movements of the country. Such a suggestion is refreshingly unconventional. We have become accustomed, during the last few years...
...books, and English books published more than twenty years ago, by an amount ranging from 20 to 33 1-3 percent. Such a proposal comes to mean little more than a direct tax on education, a fine that any man must pay for the privilege of adding to his mental store. It has not been usual in past economic systems to regard learning as a material commodity. To make it dutiable now, as Mr. Fordney inadvertently proposes to do, is to bring in a dangerous innovation and to do much injustice as well...
...theory should have been sixty years on the road across the Appalachians. The rest of us have our jazz, and our divorce problem, out movies and our bonus bills, but "The Origin of Species" is as completely vanished from the public mind as are last year's "Follies". The mental agony which rocked the world half a century ago now shakes Kentucky to its foundations; fifty years hence, they will doubtless be discussing the "freedom of the knees" as vehemently as we do today. But in their rush up the intellectual field, the Colonels are starting with an enormous handicap...
...Dean Donham's report, published today, shows that carefully planned intelligence tests are not to be scorned. The fact that they have proved remarkably accurate gauges of the mental ability of Business School students, suggests that they might prove of equal value in testing fitness for entrance to College. The great complaint against ordinary scholastic examinations has been that they do not test a man's capacity for learning, but only the amount of learning he may have already stored up. Clearly, the results of a psychological test, if applied with discretion, are a closer estimate of intrinsic mental power...
...down is coming. Intense interest in sports, to the extent that the primary purposes of a college are forgotten, will build a structure of sentiment that will not stand. No one questions the value of athletics as a great developing instrument for many of the most desirable qualities of mental and bodily strength. Increased athletic facilities and the effort everywhere to interest the greatest possible number in the various forms of sport is a hopeful indication of future dividends in health and citizenship. But somehow or other this "greatest-show-on-earth" philosophy of intercollegiate athletics must be jolted into...