Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...produced some sign of symbol of student ferment during the present college year. Here it takes the form of a campaign against compulsory chapel, there it is advice to the Trustees and Faculty as to how to run the college, again it is a barbed critique of the mental habits of the students themselves...
During that delightful period which extends from the Last Examination to Class Day, the thoughts of the average overworked undergraduate turn toward his late instructors even less than they did during the earlier portion of the college year. His mental picture of his recent guides and philosophers and historians, assuming that he has one, displays them proceeding unanimously toward the Widener Library, preparing to spend a pleasant and profitable summer in the stacks...
...They will do well if they do not pay too much attention to pleas which will certainly result in unrest and may result in changes in educational methods which we will later regret. By all means give the gifted and serious students the freedom to develop their individually and mental powers. By all means, too, reserve it for the gifted and serious. --The Quadwrangler in the Boston Transcript...
...letters, history or philosophy. If he has no sufficiently keen interest outside of science, it would in general be better to utilize his concentration to prepare for his professional studies which he can do in a variety of ways. He can then use his other courses to widen his mental outlook...
...stoutly that I encourage the evils which he implies in the mysterious term "Distribution". On the contrary, movie-going is the common, if not the unique form of concentration exercised by Oxford undergraduates; and accepting that fact without moan, I wanted to discover whether they considered it necessary that mental processes should be entirely atrophied to secure proper enjoyment of the spectacle. I was relieved to find that some of them applied the same canons of aesthetic criticism to a film as to a painting, a building or a theatrical revue...