Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's New York Times Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, is quoted as laying the blame of student collapses to college authorities. Dr. Williams emphasizes a very delicate educational problem Mal-adjustments, abnormalities, and unbending regulations, result in extreme cases, in insanity and suicide and, in more common instances, in the warping of a man's entire mental balance...
Supposedly a college is a place of enlightenment, an institution that will further mental development. Unfortunately it carries its educational inspiration only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large...
...would be foolish to say that criminals are never insane, for their very careers suggest that they have not minds of normal balance. But there is a great difference between temporary derangement and complete mental disorder. Men with the cleverness to commit crimes and then put on sufficient cunning to evade the demands of justice can hardly be adjudged insane in the ordinary sense of the term. The Lone Wolf has tried his wiles and failed. A Daniel sat in judgment over him. Such a decision is important in reestablishing the power...
...very fact of his youth, his mental adaptability, and his considerable leisure time, the university student has a natural equipment for which older and more calloused professional social workers would cheerfully exchange years of actual experience. To a group of boys, the sum total of whose previous experience has been supplied by the sidewalks of a large city, he brings the broadening influence of an entirely novel social point of view. This, coupled with the high, if vague idealism of early manhood, is something which not even inadequate methods and weak sentimentalism can wholly cheapen. That the preservation of this...
...curious and tiresome ramble among the tangled mental paths of idiocy. Such wanderings must be comic or terrible. The Dunce Boy was, unfortunately, both...