Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dependent upon preparatory institutions. Collegiate education has advanced as far as is possible, and it must now await the further development of its younger sister. What the college desires now in a more mature, intelligent, self reliant freshman, not a boy efficiently drilled in a few things, lacking all mental initiative...
...spite of the unfortunate faddism that has been associated with intelligence tests in the past, they are nevertheless generally considered to be of real worth in indicating a man's mental calibre. Indeed, they would hardly have been so generally adopted if this were not the case. There appears to be no good reason why Harvard should hold back from adopting a practice which has been so generally proved desirable...
This robust biography would have pleased its robust subject. It is written to the Roosevelt formula of history: "The exact truth . . . our disasters and shortcomings as well as our triumphs." Without too finicky mental analysis Biographer Pringle has painted the bouncing, bubbling, sometimes bumptious career of "Teddy'' (he loathed that nickname)? the sickly child who messed around with dead frogs; the dudish State legislator who "rose like a rocket"; the Civil Service Commissioner who warred with Postmaster General John Wanamaker on the spoils system; the New York City Police Commissioner who brought the town down about his ears...
...group of vaudeville actors who find themselves stranded in the big city on the eve of the Vitaphone's first great practical success. There are three of them. May Daniels a wise cracking campaigner Jerry Highland who must have been the interlocutor for the skit, and George Lewis, a mental inferior who diets on Indian nuts. The girl, played by Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They all go out to the land of plenty...
...admirable for Harvard to contribute money to tide ever some of the fourteen hundred families in Cambridge who are without means of support. But it should not stop with the assumption that money is the only contribution it can make. It should have enough respect for its own mental abilities to take part in a program for permanent economic betterment. What money it does give should be spent as the Cambridge Unemployment Relief so wisely suggested as last night's dinner; that is to help men find joins and not to provide them with a dele...