Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Has Mental Strain...
...Coach Horween of Harvard has a job on his hands to lay his plans for a successful assault against Holy Cross next Saturday, without jeopardizing the prospects against Yale, but Harvard has been through four hard-fought games on the last four Saturdays and there is less of a mental strain this week for the Crimson than there is for Yale in pointing for its traditional clash with Princeton. One reason for this happy state of affairs--from a Harvard viewpoint--is that the Holy Cross game seldom takes a serious physical toll...
...that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted. And as a result, those students whose mental capacity is greater are virtually invited to coast through their school years on their inherent superiority...
There are other various and sundry things the Plebe must do but there is little of the old system of hazing left. We mean physical hazing. "Mental hazing" by means of trick questions is done, but even this is not considered hazing for it is done in the spirit of fun. No upperclassman will ever touch a Plebe. It just isn't done, as it was twenty or thirty years...
...seen and heard at meals and formations only. But he knows that when Graduation Parade comes at the end of the week he has passed successfully through a year, meant to test the best and worst in a man, a year of the most strenuous mental and physical building given in any school of the country