Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These courses and lectures are substantial evidence that it is universally recognized that freshmen come to college without an independent mental conception of their tasks. Their expectations are indefinite; usually they do not recognize the fulfillment. It is hardly necessary to remark that the break in instruction between preparatory school and college is largely responsible. Education, is of its nature, personal and continuous; and if instruction lapses or skips two jumps ahead, the result is incomprehension. It is but stating the problem to say that the remedy lies in a general correlation of secondary school preparation and college work...
There are in the University curriculum a number of courses, distinctly too large in our opinion, which have in them preponderant elements of uselessness, boredom, unnecessary accumulations of worthless facts for the purpose of "mental discipline", and other equally unpleasant characteristics. The desirability of freedom from the ills of the lecture system for all members of the University has been advanced so often in these columns that it will scarcely bear repetition for the efforts have proved unavailing to say the least...
Since each man has commented venomously on the manner and culture of the other, the fight will not be friendly. The literary world can settle back with a good cigar to enjoy a mental boxing bout between two men not ill matched. The Atlantic ocean is no bar to the acidity of the printed word...
...Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...