Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Divinity School Alumni Association, Dean Horton revealed plans for extending the School's activities into fields normally regarded as secular. He said he hoped to obtain faculty members who would study the relation between religion and paychology, so that the modern church could "borrow the techniques of mental health...
...mental age of an average adult gypsy is thought to be about that of a child of ten. Gypsies have never accomplished anything of great significance in writing, painting, musical composition, science or social organization . . . Society has always found the gypsies an ethnic puzzle and has tried ceaselessly to fit them, by force or fraud, piety or policy, coaxing or cruelty, into some framework of its own conception, but so far without success...
...ever made an authoritative estimate of the mental age of Big Joe Uwanawich, a high-caste Serbian gypsy who lives at 174 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. There is, however, no question but that Big Joe has been highly successful in evading all attempts to fit him into a social framework. A lifelong man of leisure -many gypsies let their wives earn the family living-Big Joe claims to have been arrested some 100 times during his 70 years, but has never been known to have spent any time in jail, at least not in New York...
Slums, juvenile delinquincy, falling farm income, crowded mental hospitals, under-staffed and over-crowed schools are all dramatic indications that the state of the Union may not be as healthy as the President says. And it is hard to deny that the U.S. is facing a crisis in foreign affairs as the Soviets begin to smile their way into Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Even in the field of national defense, which should be the President's forte, recent criticisms have shown that not only may the U.S. have dangerously weakened its ground forces, but also that...
...These economies were made possible by actually increasing the number of doctors and attendants-thus speeding recoveries in many cases. Kansas mental hospitals had a full-time employee for every 2.21 patients in 1954, now have one for every 2.11, while in other states there was only one for 3.89 patients in 1954, and for 3.71 this year...