Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less violent but less concise statement of the snares and delusions of American utilitarian education--political, religious, and social, as well as academic, one should browse in the books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education, to quote from the humanistic code, there is an "elementary confusion of standards," and the blame lies on the self-styled and meddling educational 'experts.'" In the interests of palatability American children are being fed knowledge by countless "plans...
...investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime. In his first fortnight's performance...
...Public & International Affairs (TIME, March 3, 1930). Chosen chairman, Dr. Dodds developed the school as a coordinator of courses in modern languages, history, politics, economics, geography and public-speaking, with round-tables and lectures by outsiders. This week, during Commencement, the School will square off at ''Govern-mental Measures for the Revival of Business...
...Second entry is not a debit entry at all. It is a four-page mental searching in regard to Harvard's position in relation to other American Universities...
...will be possible to find or to create. It must estimate how opportunities will fluctuate as economic conditions change. It must classify jobs according to the amount of time and energy they require, and see what their effect is on the academic work and on the physical and mental well-being of the students who hold them. Finally, the relationship of the self-supporting men as a group to the intellectual and social life of the college as a whole must be studied to determine what percentage of the entire enrollment should be composed of working students...