Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is like a visit to the seashore. It takes John Jones out of himself while he cries and laughs at 'Cyrano de Bergerac', and it leaves him a finer man. His soul is purged and life does not seem quite so mean as it did before. His warped mental vista has been straightened...
Research of individual personality, brain tests, and mental analyses are products of the last few years. People are gradually beginning to realize that it is possible to look inside a man and understand his actions from the previous experiences and habits of his mind. Criminal punishment and the problem of the insane have only slightly benefitted from these new methods. A great deal can be done in the future along all lines of personal welfare. Dr. Allport's efforts deserve the most serious consideration...
...will to learn on the part of the undergraduate as the fundamental factor vitiating an otherwise fairly efficient and adaptable educational system. On the other hand the average undergraduate brought face to face with a great machinery that tends to impose a certain orthodoxy upon his fields of mental activity, so classify and label him, to assign a pigeon-hole as the area of his progress, naturally cries "Away with the monster. Paternalism and nothing else is the cause of my stagnation...
...minds of so many persons to the exclusion of everything else, is the least enduring of all fame. A Harvard graduate who distinguishes him-self in public life, writing, teaching, science, or the fine arts will be remembered when all the athletes in his class are forgotten. As the mental powers of the average undergraduate are very limited and he is anxious to distinguish himself in some way, he turns to athletics. Hence the preeminence of athletics in our universities today. Athletics are supported by small-minded men and largely participated in by small-minded men. They will not produce...
...College athletics? I can see no gain from them. I believe in exercise, and I think that at some future date bodily exercise will be so conducted as to improve the athlete's mental state. Certainly it does not accomplish that...