Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President disapproves of compulsory military training for U. S. youths because it engenders a militaristic mental attitude; the physical benefits derived from the training are of exceptional value, he believes. He told reporters last week that the fencing and dumb-bell exercise he got at Amherst have helped him through life...
Insanity is purely a legal and a sociological term in the estimation of trained psychiatrists, although the general practitioner uses it, as do most people. His training has not been sufficiently specialized for him to cope intelligently with the mental abnormalities of the chance patient. The medical schools have been poorly organized in this respect, although the postgraduate student has been able to piece together a body of knowledge on the subject...
...psychiatrists were more interested in the fact, reported by Dr. Arthur H. Harrington, that music is being applied as a definite therapeutic procedure in the Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases. He is its superintendent...
...Vitus Dance. At Albany, Dr. H. L. K. Shaw of the State Department of Health talked over the radio last week about St. Vitus Dance, the mildest, most hopeful form of chorea. Children, especially girls, are susceptible to this disease, which is usually the expression of mental exhaustion, although it may be an end result of maldevelopment or of various contagious diseases?tonsillitis, measles, whooping cough. Cure is usually effected by quiet surroundings, rest in bed, full diet with plenty of fatty ingredients (milk, eggs), and above all the eliminating of the causative conditions. Relapses occur?the signs of trembling...
That this is to be the case at Harvard one may be certain, if one believes that the administration. In admitting this new branch of mental discipline so establish and maintain high standards that this particular curriculum has the respect of the student body. And one may certainly expect such high standards to prevail. Nor is the study of naval science so near the correspondence variety of pseudo learning as one can imagine...