Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England's dole is a medicine for the dis ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
There seems an even stronger probability that, for the community as a whole, intellectual work at college among the best students will prove a good investment. Superior mental calibre is certainly demanded of leaders in government and economics today. In addition to an immense mass of information, they should have well-considered opinions on fundamental principles. Their collegiate training ought surely to have demanded considerable intellectual maturity...
Before 1901 the University took no official interest in the physical or mental welfare of the undergraduate body. At that time it first provided a physician who could be summoned to students' rooms, much to the dismay of the medical profession in Cambridge. In 1901 James Alexander Stillman '96 gave the present infirmary, stipulating only that "it should be made as perfect as was possible." In the succeeding years the medical staff was increased, an operating room was installed in Stillman, six years ago the services of a surgeon were acquired; eye, skin, and dental clinics have been instituted; corrective...
...typical example of the mental gymnastics which have helped the University to salve its conscience in using restricted funds for general purposes is evident in President Lowell's report in which he considers the use of the Pierce bequest to the Philosophy Department. The value of the gift to the Philosophy Department was in effect cancelled, but the process was so subtle that the President felt that the conditions of the bequest had not been violated...
Whatever the immediate advantages of entering upon a career in a depression, the mental influence of times of stress is beneficial. The young man entering a fool's paradise from his university may conceive of life as a series of halycon days interspersed with a few unexplainable storms, but he who graduates in the collapse of this paradise will have greater respect for the sterner virtues, which, come to the front in stormy days...