Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitney declares the figures of "Three Soldiers" "moral and mental cowards and, like all great emotional experiences, the war merely intensifier those qualities which they already possessed". War, that is to say, is an impartial intensifier of what is latent in men, bringing out the good as readily as the bad. The whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid...
...brings him in the way of an officer of one of the railroads near New York, who adopts him and educates him. From early boyhood Thorpe has disliked women; fortune has thrown him into the hands of the lowest of them. The book is the story of Thorpe's mental and intellectual growth and the gradual weakening of his hate for all women...
...present grading system is not perfect by any means, and perhaps it works injustice. But that the A, Q, scheme will be a worthy substitute is not so certain, especially when we hear how it is to be conducted. Mental ability, claims Professor Thorndike, is a physical factor that can be measured as carefully as weight, lung capacity, or blood pressure. Education is human engineering, and should be carried on like other sciences, with the use of units such as the foot-pound, the volt, or the calorie. The exact units to be used for each type of mental test...
...without a knowledge of these two fundamental sources of purest English. In selecting these two works as textbooks, the Harvard Faculty intends that they be studied for the value that is in the language which the writers used rather than for the purpose of teaching religious belief or pure mental enjoyment...
Time and time again we hear that the purpose of a college is to teach men to think. But it must be admitted that the majority of large courses let the student slip by with but little mental effort. The lecturer cannot but be impersonal, and many listen to him as they would to a speaker on Boston Common; with little attention and no thought. In a small course it is different. The student meets the professor personally, and has opportunity to discuss with him any point about which he is doubtful. Besides, he cannot but feel that the professor...