Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute of Criminal Law at the Harvard Law School, the first of its kind in this country, has as its program the scientific correction of criminals. In the wide curriculum are included economics, government, social and psychopathology; social ethics, casework, and research; mental hygiene, criminology, penology, and the usual legal subjects. The first part of the two-year course is spent in research, the summer in some penal institution if possible, and the second part in instruction. When these men have graduated, the Institute hopes to place them in probation or correctional offices, so that they may be able...
What happened was that Mr. Lowell foresaw the cultural crisis in American life and deliberately prepared for it. He was able to persuade or maneuver the undergraduates into an espousal of intellectual cultivation. Hard mental labor is now fashionable; in Harvard College, and better than fashionable; it is at last socially respectable and better than that, it is rejoiced in and enjoyed for its own sake by young men who discover to their amazement and delight that they have brains and that it is exhilarating to be able to use them...
...Saturday in a sea of mud at New Haven, the Crimson booters, with all championship worries gone and only a fighting chance to emerge victorious over the Elis, have been bolstered by the return of G.F. Stork '35, high-scoring forward. Coach J.F. Carr '28 describes the team's mental attitude as "just right" for victory...
...baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form of megalomania. She was incorrigibly bossy, inherently destructive...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...