Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry out this plan a personnel organization will be attached to the Dean's Office, whose duty it will be to report on the appearance, mental keenness, accuracy, courtesy, and other attributes of students. In addition work done in extra-curriculum activities will be noted on the reports...
...base all disciplinary action on a more personal knowledge of the man in question than has been hitherto possible, and to encourage the men themselves in taking an active interest in the development of their entire persons, instead of conducing the greater part of their attention to their mental development
...there must be added one which is affirmative and constructive. In any such formulation Independence and Liberalism must stand as twin first principles. To make a college daily a mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...
...made a game of his long war with space. It gives him immense amusement and satisfaction, by virtue of some obscure mental deficiency, to measure the speed of his puny limbs against some unit of speed; such researches he terms "sport," tabulates his results with infinite precision, and rejoices preposterously whenever some new record is brought to his credit. Civilized women, because the width of their hips makes their walk an inevitable, though sometimes a graceful, waddle, have not contributed much to this imbecilic form of experimentation. Their speed upon cinders, earth, boards, is pathetic...
...lizard; the manager of the restaurant held that it was merely a roach, wasp or centipede, that its evil look was due to its own, not to Miss Puree's blood. Miss Puree brought suit against the Horn & Hardart Co., asked $2,000 for the "mental and physical anguish" she had undergone as a result of the beastly sandwich. The court, explaining that a restaurant is responsible for the quality of its food, awarded...