Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resentment arisen among westerners? The answer seems to be because Harvard has been made unattractive to them. For westerners are absolutely intolerant of Boston's traditional "mental luxury of conservatism" which is more tritely expressed by the word "snobbishness", and the snobbish element must be removed before we can stifle this detrimental hostility. The undergraduate body is not snobbish. Then, let us be sure that we choose representatives of the students who are true representatives! ROBERT S. KELLER '23. March...
Among the various sports supported by the College is lacrosse. Although only a minor sport, it is one of the best that exists. It holds for its players every good quality that one can desire. It provides exercise, requires skill, and develops mental alertness; it combines team play and personal contact between players...
...humble opinion, football stands at the very top, as an essential preparation for life, because it combines maximum physical development and unusual mental development during the brief time that it may be played...
Crowded into ten weeks, the football player intensively develops accurate powers of observation, correct deductions, self-analysis, self-control, the ability to instantly execute, his mental conclusions, and many other factors which could not be developed at any such rate unless the factor of incentive, such as we find during the hours of competitive play on the football field,--existed. He further perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner...
...decision not to return to the University does not come as a surprise to his friends after his unfortunate disappearance two weeks ago, when suffering from a severe cold and from mental depression he left the University and was found some days later in Denver under the care of a physician...