Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop to the full limit their eyes, their ears, their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship or industry, is only the average man plus a little additional efficiency, both mental and physical, a little more will-power and "pep". Boston Evening Transcript
Romanes, in an essay on the mental differences between men and women, assured his readers that under the most favorable conditions for culture, and supposing the mind of man to remain stationary, it would take woman many centuries to produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion...
...rating scale is composed of two parts. The first covers the chief mental and personal qualities upon which business success is considered largely to depend. There are seven of these native ability, personality, industry, reliability, initiative, co-operation, and judgment. Each man will be rated as "exceptional", "good", "average", "weak", or unsatisfactory" in respect to each of these qualities, the rating being done by from three to five members of the faculty with whom he comes in personal contact...
...letter-head for about half a year", according to Professor Robert Bowser '13, in connection with a former Crimson competition. "The essential object of going to college is and always will be an education. Yet training in undergraduate activities of this sort can well be a part of that mental discipline, which fits a man to be graduated...
There is a reason, despite the editorial in yesterday's CRIMSON, for holding two examinations on one day; and Dventure to think it stronger than the argument, on the ground of mental lassitude and exhaustion, for not doing so. Up to this year the "general" examination, as distinguished from the "special", in the Division of History, Government and Economics, 'has consisted of a single three-hour paper, in three one-hour sections--essay, non-departmental and departmental. Vigorous representations form both professors and students, that sufficient time was not allowed to enable the candidates to do themselves justice...