Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students together in Houses is being tried, but it would seem that the difficulty might be attacked much nearer its root in the system of courses. If, for example, Professor Whitehead gave a lecture to the Freshmen who take Mathematics A, explaining the significance of mathematics in Philosophy, the mental horizon of all the intelligent students in the course would be appreciably widened. The same scheme, modified for various fields, would work successfully in almost all the large introductory courses. The plan could be carried to absurdity, indeed, but none need fear that Harvard College will ever go to extremes...
...admission to the more advanced courses. Psychology 1, given by Professor Boring is an introduction to Experimental Psychology and is involved chiefly with such topics as emotions, sensation, and memory which may be attacked experimentally. This course goes into physiology and biology, showing their relation to the function of mental life. Psychology A, given by Professor Pratt, and open to Freshmen, gives a wider outlook on the total field of psychology. While discussing the subject matter of Psychology 1 to a certain extent, it makes it quite clear that such is only one branch of Psychology, and goes...
...what used to be. This reason is probably as important as the "cash nexus" to those who intend to "spend their life in history," either as teachers, as historians, or as hobbyists. But that reason for concentrating in history which is common to all of its concentrators is the mental training derived from its study. Such training it is true, is not the exclusive property of the Department of History. Yet the study of history gives peculiar opportunity for learning to deal with complicated sets of real forces and events. In the case of History at Harvard College, this training...
Dean Holmes, in a recent address, states that the majority of the subjects required for college entrance are "dropped at the gates" of the University, and looked upon as something once studied and henceforth to be forgotten. Although such courses have long been considered in the light of mental discipline, their value as such is outweighed by their uselessness in preparing the student to do college work. Entrance tests should analyze a candidate's mind, discover his needs, and in some way prove whether or not he is mentally equipped to do college work, rather than determine that...
...every Sophomore's. The bell in Sever rings louder and more frequently. There is no discharge in the war. It is the baleful season. It is Harvard. It is life. It is April Hours. It is the departure of the debutantes--although this is doubtful. It is a mental attitude. It is a fact. It is March...