Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service is found to have had a criminal record. New York City required fingerprints of its civil service employes when it was found that one applicant was taking the physical examinations, a second the mental examination, a third the job & pay. Postal Savings requires fingerprints of all depositors. Many banks do likewise for illiterate depositors, foreign draft buyers and safety deposit vault renters. Many corporations (notably insurance companies) fingerprint job applicants. Some hospitals are beginning to footprint newborn babes for identification...
...contacts among the tutees in a group would prove mutually valuable in most cases, and an alert tutor could easily evoke friendly rivalry which would have a very salutary effect upon the mental activity of the participants. But indeed, from the point of view of more technical educational theory, the method of the small class is known to be more successful than the method of individual instruction when matters of general background, rather than of specialized detail, are to be discussed; and the sophomore tutorial work has precisely this object in mind. (Name withheld by request...
Under the auspices of the national Association of Unemployed College Alumni there has been formed a branch organization of Unemployed Harvard Graduates, which, presumably, subscribes to the program of the Association, and which makes a few moderate requests of the college administration. These are men educated and mentally fitted for responsible positions of demonstrable value to the community. Yet that same training and capacity has rendered them unfit in the process of locating employment during a Depression. In order that protracted discouragement may not lead to despondent mental inaction, they would have the college open its graduate school, library...
...Education," said Dr. Hopkins, "does not deal with disembodied minds but with men of flesh and blood, possessed in varying degrees of mental capacities, of obscure neuroses, of emotional sensitiveness, and of spiritual aspiration. The influence of educational foundations, such as are our colleges and universities, should be in behalf of that wholeness of man which is healthfulness and which is holiness...
Michigan Sportsman. Jan Adrian ("Jack") Van Coevering, 33, is a short, blond, blue-eyed missionary. His gospel is the mental and physical healing power of Nature, his mission the preserving and popularizing of Michigan's great outdoors. The Detroit Free Press gave him a weekly column for a pulpit. Now William C. Sowell has given him a whole magazine. In the first (March) issue of The Michigan Sportsman Editor Van Coevering foresees Depression ending with "America's mills again . . . operating at feverish heat, fiendish efficiency." Then men & women, if they are not to be reduced to "pill...