Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mental control, the ability to keep cool and remember the essential fundamentals of execution in the excitement of the duel, is an asset learned in fencing, an asset that inevitably must be mastered by the foilsman and one that proves invaluable in life, whatever career a man pray choose. The struggle for nerve-control, self-restraint on the mat, is as vital in winning matches as is the actual handling of the steel in combat...
...never forgotten. It is a sport worth many times the labor of learning. But it is a public that wants its cake without working for it, that, in following other sports because they are easily learned, never learns that sport which in itself alone combines the physical and, mental advantages of practically all other sports. In conclusion, I would emphasize again that fencing is more than a game; it is an art, an art greatly valued by all its devotees as every follower of the foils will testify...
...seems very doubtful whether under present circumstances a clean cut recognition of intellectual superiority is possible. Class-room competition between a man who devotes all his time to his studies and a man whose main interest is on Soldiers Field is obviously no test of the mental grasp of either. So long as work on the athletic field and on publications plays the highly important role in undergraduate life that it does today, those who receive the best marks will be those who are unfitted for or undesirous of executive, managerial, or athletic success. If therefore seems perfectly natural that...
...seemed that the heart must beat itself to pieces in the weary body. While I must admit that there was more or less fun in this, I have never enjoyed any phase of competitive college sports, save perhaps the moment of winning. All the rest was torture--physical and mental...
...public in the development of the best possible social and industrial systems and hope that people will appreciate why the unions oppose all the so called 'efficiency' systems that seek to force workers to exert themselves beyond all reasonable limits and that will result in their physical and mental harm. In these days of highly developed machinery, it is inconceivable that ample production cannot be had on an eight-hour basis. At the present time, at least, it is hypocritical to ask laborers to work longer hours and produce more with hundreds and thousands of men out of work...