Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donnell '34, S. M. Peyser '34, and A. E. Phillips '34. The first three men will debate against Yale in New Haven on Friday evening, with M. A. Hoffman '34 as alternate, taking the negative of the question, "Resolved, That colleges should limit their attendance to those of superior mental ability...
...Vagabond in desperation is going to attempt the horrors of mental travail as a counter irritant. Today at 10 he will go to Paine Hall to hear the last movement of Brahms' First, played and then discussed by Professor Ballantine. As a matter of fact he feels much more harkening to Herbert's "Kiss Me Again," but he has heard that Brahms is considered awfully good, albelt intellectual...
...Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental deficiency of either party sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice; 5) Insanity of either party; 6) Consanguinity (whole or half blood); 7) Misrepresented or mistaken identity; 8) Venereal disease; 9) Bigamy...
...question is clear enough. Higher education in America is not very high. Out the colleges to make intellectual development their chief concern? Can a university serve the community best by insisting on the paramount importance of mental education...
...college life," shorn of its worst absurdities. Those which aspire to produce great intellectual leaders can do so far more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which may be as valuable as purely mental growth, but it is the best way to produce that rara avis, a really strong intellect, ready to "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...