Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...traditional height of shamelessness in athletics is the existence of a probation team stronger than the regulars. There have been times, especially in class sports, when such conditions held. Slowly the rise of undergraduate opinion against neglect of studies, and the feeling that a man may break mental training as well as physical, have improved the scholarship standard of athletes...
...strangely sensative mental temperament, and his imaginative cast of mind often made him appear inconsistent or even insincere when he really was not. As he achieved success, and as he realized more deeply the burden that was his, in that proportion he placed public needs above private aspirations...
...general public is more or less conversant with the results of a college course from a mental standpoint, and in order that it might have some conception of the physical changes I have published various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows...
...other words, a study of the question leads one to infer that an important factor in the solution of the above figures is the larger appreciation of the influence of the physical upon the mental and the moral which is resulting in increased facilities for physical development...
...could be required to take not only seventeen courses but to choose them so that the weights should add up to a given amount. In this way the work for a degree would be adequate not only in quantity but also in quality. We should sacrifice none of the mental power acquired under the present system, and we should have greater elasticity and ease of administration. It may be objected that many students would not acquire as complete a knowledge of some one subject, but it is generally conceded, I think that the chief purpose of a college education...