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...institution that will further mental development. Unfortunately it carries its educational inspiration only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
...crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
With hope to warp her ends to their own needs...
...personal--one might almost call it a development of one's egoism--it has been necessary in both schools and colleges to seek in extra-curriculum activities the means for creating an esprit de corps. As a general rule, a man is a good student because of the peculiar warp of his mind. The trophy is a group award, and will probably be won because the group that gets it is composed of boys who are naturally good students, rather than that the prospect of winning it will stimulate them to become good students. How this fundamental obstacle...
...That warp the soul...