Word: mentalities
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...Most if not all of my efforts have been on preparing,” he admits, likening the training to the spring practices currently being undertaken by the Harvard football team. “It’s an extra mental effort—a bigger stage, more pressure...
...psychological research that must necessarily lie behind the practice of psychiatry is going on in some form in almost all the colleges of the country. Use of intelligence tests calculated to get at a student's mental content has spread with astonishing rapidity. Originated by the famous Frenchman. Binet, they were brought to this country by Dr. H. H. Goddard. Until the war, knowledge of them was chiefly confined to experimental psychologists. Then the famous Army Alpha tests were devised, and intelligence testing took on the appearance of a popular sport...
...what great days to be alive in, to be alive and young. The whole world has been torn to pieces and must be rebuilt. It is a time of social rebuilding. The very sight of the opportunity is enough to waken laggards and parasites. Sinai is in sight. Mental and moral preparedness are imperative...
...done by competent, fit men and women if industry is to be humanized, if education is to train the spirit, if Democracy is not to go down in defeat, we need not merely conspicuous statesmen and leaders, but ranks upon ranks of common people in every community with mental and moral preparedness...
...prove to the office that he has in a measure heeded the discourse and developed the hints of his instructor but those which show just how well he is able in torrid weather and with a mind fatigued from the monotony and length of the college year to do mental tricks for the edification of his faculty Examinations in English literature, for instance, are so arranged that the professor can eventually stand before some conference of wits and say. "I asked so many hundred supposedly intelligent college men what poems of the Nineteenth Century romanticists they liked and they could...