Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight it out among themselves. The "meaningless 'uh'" is of course merely the far-off echo of that wordless mental battle...
...believe that they will continue to be prominent in the work. But in no sense in the present movement to establish a military and naval reserve reactionary. It is a plan to give college men new opportunities for instruction and patriotic service and to raise the moral and mental standards of the army and navy. As such it should be understood and deserves the support of all Harvard...
...neighbor, Technology, is this week undergoing a thorough 24-hours-a-day test of its engineering equipment, by all its engineering students, working in eight-hour shifts. Harvard, to be sure, has no such test of its material equipment in store; but an equally thorough probing of Harvard's mental furnishings is scheduled to begin a fortnight hence. Vacation, according to an old tradition, is for the immediately following period somewhat demoralizing as well as refreshing. So it may not be amiss to sound a warning, time-worn but always pertinent, that the test of "Mid-years" is at hand...
...problems in which it is interested. The educational value of these efforts to analyse living, moving problems is easily overlooked by those whose interest centers in philological, historical, and mathematical problems. A genuinely broad mind, however, will not pronounce too hastily upon the comparative value of different kinds of mental effort, or effort devoted to the solution of different kinds of problems. If one finds, for example, that the Aroostook farmers talk about potato growing, and the western farmers about cattle feeding as incessantly as Harvard law students talk about law cases, one may have definite opinions as to which...
While the country at present is undeveloped to a deplorable extent, the future is not altogether black. The race is naturally able and possessed of sound moral attributes. One weakness, however, is found in the inability of the leading statesmen to withstand prolonged mental strain. Next to the demand for adequate medical aid, some relaxing outdoor sport is the greatest need of the Chinese race...