Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hale goes too far in condemning the House Plan, there is nevertheless validity in his fundamental point that colleges, if they are to foster mental development on a high level, must limit their numbers to the few men who are equipped through interest, training, and ability, for really advanced academic work. Attempts to hedge between the democratic ideal of mass education and the ideal of developing intellectual leaders of some calibre have had unsatisfactory results in both directions, as the storm of criticism during the last few years shows. The colleges are squarely faced with the necessity of choosing between...
...into the various nooks and crannies that are of interest in the University. It cam to him in the course of his peregrinations that there are many good things about that few under graduates seem to appreciate. Perhaps this is due to the press of scholasticism, perhaps to sheer mental disinterest, or perhaps to ignorance, which at Harvard may be construed as synonymous with mental disinterest. Whatever the cause, and the Vagabond does not profess to know it, he has decided to set down his findings on the thins which should amuse and edify the average youth...
...knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...
Vainly did his attorneys plead for clemency, argue that their client was physically weak, that he lacked the mental calibre for the office of Congressman. U. S. Judge Charles E. Woodward, deaf to entreaties, fined Bribee Rowbottom $2,000, sentenced him to a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary.* Said Judge Woodward to Rowbottom before the bar: "You have betrayed your constituents and cheapened public office. The Court cannot condone the flagrant and cynical barter and sale of public offices. The sentence must be of such nature as to deter other Congressmen from such practices...
...Conferees emitted no vaporings about jobs the blind can fill efficiently. The U. S. delegates listed 206 separate kinds of jobs. The Europeans added a few more. Occupations range from the mental (lawyers, writers, singers, salesmen), through the semi-manual (osteopaths, masseurs, typists), to the manual (farmers, carpenters, mechanics). The blind are peculiarly deft at assembling parts. A profession whose unexpected obviousness makes it surprising is Miss Emma Most's of San Francisco. She is a coffee-taster...