Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he does he stands much less chance of being injured than one who has not familiarized himself with the art of self-defense, but even though the knowledge gained in boxing may never come into use, the sport brings its full reward in physical condition, muscular and mental alertness...
...undergraduate has proved to be of great value to me since leaving the University. Though the essential object of going to college is still, and always will be, to obtain 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...
Theodore F. Green of the Providence Bar will speak on "A Legal Practitioner's Mental Equipment" in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House Sunday at 8 o'clock. This meeting is held under the auspices of the Law School Society and is open to all men in the University...
...which some of us certainly will agree: that the age in which we live is so intensely practical that few people have any thought to waste on true education. We are so busy learning how to be practical specialists that we utterly forget such minor acquisitions as intellectual power, mental development and "the art of living." Mr. Morrison implies another great truth--the only knowledge really worth anything is that which we acquire by our own efforts. That which is supplied to us gratis in tabloid form will ever be found wanting when we weigh it carefully. In this connection...
...Among the "Familiar Letters of William James," soon to be published by the Atlantic Monthly Company, there is a letter to Josiah Royce which shows the warm and intimate friendship which existed between these two great minds. "You are still the center of my gaze, the pole of my mental magnet," writes Mr. James. "When I write, 'tis with one eye on the page, and one on you. When I compose my Gifford lectures mentally, 'tis with the design exclusively of overthrowing your system, and ruining your peace...