Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into operation at once. Connections can easily be made with the Reading Room, if indeed they do not already, exist. Thus we can be assured of a regular supply of fresh air without draught, and consequently of a reading room which will increase rather than destroy the mental alacrity of its users. Those who desire to sleep will have in future to seek the cinema, which is much more admirably fitted for that form of inactivity anyway. Yours very truly, Varian...
...sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination of hereditary defects, of gaining new light on the inheritance of mental characteristics...
...former triumph mere laudatory comment is superfluous. If the editors of the Choate News were to he congratulated on an excellent newspaper last year, they deserve even greater praise for having maintained their high standard and repeated a performance which, as their rivals and judges at least know, requires mental and physical stamina. Moreover, in setting and living up to an excellent standard, the Choate editors have probably fulfilled the highest expectations of the CRIMSON Senior Editors of the Class of 1926, who created the fund for three cups. For inasmuch as the competition in its brief two year existence...
...examination, for one finds there gathered the bogies that have haunted the freshman's courses. Particular attention was given to the problem of note-taking. The groups were drilled in rapid reading: a corresponding growth in the assimilative powers was verified by tests. Lectures were given on habits, attentiveness, mental hygiene, memorizing, and choosing a vocation. The results that the grade of this group in intelligence examinations has been raised, and that the group is seventy-five percent successful in college and is on the up grade are interpreted as twin justifications of the scheme...
Education B. Educational Psychology and Mental Hygiene. Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday, at 10 o'clock. Mr. Selzer with the cooperation of Professor Dearborn...