Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate Hadley was famed among his classmates for his broad knowledge, taking prizes in such varied fields as Greek and Latin poetry, astronomy, and English composition. A scholar, he had proceeded far towards the achievement of that balance which every well-rounded individual desires between physical and mental exertions. Not only was he a skilled Alpinist, but was said to have been as well versed as Walter Camp in the theory of football...
...single entity in a more or less preparatory "collegiate" unit where promotion to more formal educational pursuits of the "university" unit will be based not on credits secured by the completion of a prescribed curriculum, as at present, but by the student's ability to increase his "mental capacity" and by his "reaction to the university's opportunities...
...projected reform which is as yet only tentative, in theory would seem to be a progressive and worth-while move which would allow students to proceed in their education at a rate more in accord with individual mental capacities than is possible under present conditions. A difficulty present itself, however, in finding a more accurate gauge of qualities, as intangible as a student's "mental capacity", and "reaction to the university's opportunities" than exists under the credit system which President Hutchins wishes to supplant. Such a gauge is necessarily the foundation on which the new system must rest...
...considering the career of a doorkeeper should take warning from this horrible example of what Prohibition has accomplished among the Turks. The doorkeeper who watches American politicians emerging from American city halls for one hundred and fifty-six years must develop either a profound cynicism or an even deeper mental anaethesia. As for the eleven wives, a consideration of the suffering usually resultant from one provides a deterrent. Although monotony in professional life doubtless requires the variety in the domestic side, both evils strike a severe blow at the teetotaler instead of aiding his cause. For youth just starting...
...another and worked into a new word that shall be the lowest common multiple of them all. These words have been chosen out of innumerable languages, living and dead, either because of some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers: by the influence of his writing on other authors Joyce...