Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert. The next great extension of civilization, speculated Huntington, may be into Russia: the technique of keeping warm...
...change of life in their 40s or 50s-but a man seldom recognizes what is wrong with him. When a man of 40 to 55 begins to feel tired, depressed, out of sorts and washed-out, the trouble is not necessarily in his job or a decline in his mental powers, according to the Montreal experts. The trouble is in his hormone production. In the current Psychiatric Quarterly, Prados & Ruddick describe some of the odd symptoms of the male change of life...
...Montreal psychiatrists, there is nothing much wrong with the aging male that hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...
...academic courses. Sports, publications, extra curricular activities of all sorts, student counselling, group life --each plays its part. Instructors must have more than mere scholastic proficiency. They must be able to inspire a love of learning, integrate their particular field with the whole of knowledge, and to create that mental attitude which finds a continuing education in life after college...
...wily Harry Stuhidreher, using all the mental acumen he acquired quarterbacking the "Four Horsemen" under Knute Rockne, had his second eleven in there the entire third quarter. When the fourth period saw the return of the Badger regulars, tired old Eli gave up the ghost...