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...personnel work is educational, vocational, mental and physical. Freshmen are helped over that terrible first home-sickness; are encouraged in scholastic plans and athletic aspirations. A check is kept on their health...
...thing we are particularly interested it: is the clearing up of what look like simple troubles before they have had a chance to get complicated," said Dr. Ruggles. "We want to teach the ways and the habits of mental and emotional health. If we can do that we may be able to prevent that most tragic waste; the breakdown of a finely trained mind...
Students have been quick to take advantage of this unusual opportunity for consultation. The problems they bring run the whole gamut of mental and emotional woes. Perhaps a boy has been "studying all the time," yet, because he worked inefficiently, has been doing poor work. Perhaps there have been sleepless nights that resulted in bad temper, indigestion and poor marks. Money troubles, obscure fears, estrangement between parents, tangled love affairs, black depressions, all of these and many more are laid before the psychiatrist in his capacity of consulting physician...
...pioneer in this effort to treat the mental and emotional ills of students is said to have been Dr. Stewart Paton of Princeton, author of a celebrated book, "Human Behavior." An able psychiatrist, he realized the students' need of expert advice and offered his services as consultant...
...Milton Harrington of Dartmouth, consulting psychiatrist and lecturer in mental hygiene, believes with Dr. Paton that the social value of the work is even more important than its individual aspect. He is interested in men as prospective members of society, and feels that psychiatry can render a great service in teaching men to order their lives and their living; to work consciously for the kind of a society they want to live...