Word: brains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...zoology lecturer held up a small object in his hand. "Gentlemen, this is the brain. With the training of it our whole system of education is concerned, from kindergarten through the higher universities." The brains of his auditors were impressed and a new groove was made on them to record this latest knowledge...
Perhaps the difference between the wisest and the most foolish of men is that the brain of the wisest would fill a larger nutshell. Here is your education...
This was one manifestation of Professor Muensterberg's many abilities, for he was a distinctly remarkable man. When he took his place in the Harvard Faculty, psychology, as taught in most American colleges, was baseless assumptions in regard to the workings of the human brain. It had no relation to the practical facts of life, was of no imaginable utility in a workaday world, and appealed only to a very small class of closet philosophers who had no interest in Things as They Are. That Professor Muensterberg "changed all that" cannot be claimed, but it is true...
...internationalist idea lodged even in the brain of this man, who was in most respects the reverse of an internationalist...
...even the multifarious duties of the subaltern. Military science has progressed so much in recent years as to require the highest degree of training on the part of the officer. To exercise intelligent command of troops, to know how to lead and to care for men, to make brain and body meter with the greatest gain and the minimum loss, mean close study and constant application covering a period of years, not months...