Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond is feeling particularly uneasy this morning, but to determine the cause of this mental restlessness would probably not tax the genius of a psychologist unduly. It is a preliminary symptom of that dread disease common to most dwellers in this academic atmosphere, namely Cantabrigophobia...
...Vagabond has exerted his utmost efforts of self-control. He has striven to raise himself to the mental plane where he can appreciate the offerings of the lecture platform. He has been struggling for the last twenty-four hours to maintain that famed disinterestedness towards things worldly. Has he succeeded? No, most emphatically, no!--And what's more, he knows perfectly well that there are many more like him around Harvard Square. For their benefit he can suggest at least three ways of utilizing a part of a fortunately prolonged week...
...face of the marines to a quiet corner in Sever 11 and the drone of the immemorial past. It was, however, too late to break into print on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Professor Whitehead last Saturday. To one to whom time conceptions are merely mental gymnastics, age a philosophical paradox, it is almost impertinent to offer congratulations. A certain kind of homage is perhaps more appropriate to one who undoubtedly is one of the greatest twentieth century thinkers and teachers. Yet, universities seem always to assume the right to boast of the men who make them great...
Doctors approve to a limited extent treatment through faith. A favorable mental attitude, such as strong faith produces, can help cure disease, especially mental disease...
...Protestant Episcopal Church in the U. S. A., counterpart of the Church of England, in a resolution by its 1928 general convention was thankful for the ''growing recognition of the healing power of God.'' Faith clinics for nervous and mental disorders have been established at various churches under their bishops' approval. Patients are examined successively by a physician, a psychiatrist, a priest. The "confession" to the priest and his consolation are all that the patient often needs. They cure...