Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etymology of the word, "professor" means "teacher." It implies a gift of character, the ability to project to the student definite thought, supposedly provoking more definite thought. Lack of research admittedly results in mental impotence for the individual. The other extreme, a lack of intelligent, well prepared and constantly revised instruction can result only in mental sterility of the undergraduate body. Until promotions and appointments are based as much, and preferably a little more, on what the teacher has to offer his pupils, as on his imposing bibliography at the Harvard Coop, the first purpose of Harvard University is candidly...
...sense of justice and sincerity, and a capacity to grasp and analyze public questions, are most essential to success. It is regrettable to find so many men in public life who may be honest but whose conception of politics is that it is a game of expediency and that mental capacity is inconsequental...
...Dads Day and other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic. A little publicity is always a profitable thing especially when connected with such a worthy cause. Intensive propaganda of this type may fill the air with sound and fury...
...same token the Scholastic Aptitude Test offers far better criteria on a man's capacity than the New Plan. This is probably of more significance than the first point, for it indicates that the intelligence of a student can better be judged by a mental test than by a carefully prepared examination on the subjects that are drilled into him by secondary schools...
...Nurse (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This picture fails in many ways to do justice to its theme-the woman's side of the War-yet it is a courageous and fairly honest effort. The picture of mental and physical conditions at the great French base-hospitals is restrained in comparison with the descriptions of such conditions that have been current, verbally and in writing, since the Armistice. Nevertheless, audiences who saw the first showings of War Nurse last week frequently laughed at the wrong times. Audiences can absorb visible violence only up to a definite saturation point, after which they...