Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive an arbitrary 75 on their English entrance examination are forced to take an additional course, English A-1, without credit. Since the majority of men who find the first year difficult are in this group, this means that the poor student must take five courses while their mental superiors only take four...
...attitudes of other college authorities is to be commended. With other college papers and magazines being suspended with much less cause by oversensitive legislators, Harvard at least can say, "We appeal to college men who are expected to be mature enough to think for themselves, requiring university advisors, not mental policemen." Again Harvard shows a clear and sensible attitude, rather than a follow the leader impulse. Brown Daily Herald...
...same section as those with C's and E's, as though they were all on an intellectual par. This arrangement is due to a supposition, proved quite erroneous by the results, that men of high intellectual capacities will be helped by such close contact with their mental inferiors and vice versa. This would work out successfully if it were merely contact which the student gets in such a levelled arrangement. However, by all mathematical laws, the sections must inevitably run on at the mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections...
...reached Copenhagen last Easter, the team had grown to 250, including the Bishop of Finland and many a Scandinavian socialite. The combined weight of big names, the Groups' persuasive message and a good Press left Bergen, Olso and many a smaller town breathless. Said Tidens Tegn: "The mental outlook of the whole country has definitely changed...
...mental strain to which these individuals were subjected at such a crisis in their lives can be excused on the basis of the survival of the fittest. The thing which does give one pause, however, is to think that this example may be shaping these forty Juniors into sadists, just like the martinet of a proctor who ran Monday's show...