Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...military institution to be taught to be a military man, but if we analyze the qualifications of a milltary man I fall to know of any of which an academic training is not the foremost, though no college has carried out is fullest mission if it has neglected the mental, moral, or physical education of its students. Unfortunately, he goes only for four years and is expected at the end of that time to know his profession. With most other professions a student spends the same four years as an undergraduate, and three or four more in a professional school...
...hour since the war and even before the war, namely, the relation of liberalism and education. Has a University the right to dismiss from its members any person who does not agree with its views, who is advancing along what he considers to be the road to mental, and sometimes physical, freedom? The author thinks it has not, and, in this case at any rate, proves her point with niceness. True, she takes an exceptionally strong example with which to work. The founders of this country, she points out, were rebels, and many of them fugitives from the iron laws...
...think that a play along such lines would either read like an essay or flare like a dime novel. As a matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...
...been generally accepted as true for several decades. It was only a revoicing, with certain necessary modifications, of Lincoln's thesis is some sixty years ago. The days of Roosevelt must be slipping into oblivion if a frank statement of facts can throw most of our population off its mental balance. A few more such surprises might serve as healthful stimulation...
...than the world already has. It is appreciation of what is fine without letting it be obscured by the sordid. It is not more training, but inspiration. These qualities are the attributes of intellect, and they lead to progress. They are to be attained only by that form of mental activity known as scholarship; and we believe that it is the sort of scholarship for which Harvard trains--a scholarship not only of books and individuals, but of citizenship in its broadest sense...