Word: mental
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...vacation life is irregular, and does not always build a man up. Moreover, the work for the Freshman examination is more important, as well as harder, than any other work in College, and the time after the class races is not sufficient for preparation if interrupted by the mental inability caused by rowing. Perhaps the most appealing reason to the Freshmen themselves in the favor of our argument is that which is beginning to operate on '83. The race with Columbia cost something like $2,300, of which $1,300 is still unpaid. This shows how hard a race...
...year; and this view of the case does not, at first sight, seem unreasonable. But it is extremely doubtful if shortening the period does prevent cramming. On the contrary, it forces an enormous amount of work into a few days, and leaves the student in a state of mental collapse that effectually prevents any work for some time. Cramming, in the case of a majority of students, is not a hurried effort to get a superficial knowledge of the half-year's work in a day or two, but merely a review of work which has been performed from...
...city. The natural tendency to relaxation at the end of the week is inevitable, and, in our opinion, desirable. Granted that there is a loss of hours by this weekly absence, is there not a proportionate gain in earnestness and application? Surely a change of scene does not weaken mental powers...
...study-time? Moreover, he argues that by remaining in Cambridge we can enjoy "intellectual conversation" with our fellow-students. Is "intellectual conversation" confined to students? And does he pay a very high compliment to our home surroundings when he intimates that we must remain in Cambridge for this mental stimulus...
...President's statements, "that in such a system students will neglect the more difficult subjects and select studies requiring less mental application, which are for this reason of less value in discipline," appeared to be contrary to our experience at Harvard, and investigation has shown this to be true...