Mens Sana

It remained for Brown University to propound the modern application of that ancient pedagogical canon, mens sana in corpore sano. Last week, President W. H. P. Faunce announced that hereafter his undergraduates will be examined not only as to their lungs, hearts, livers and eyes by physicians, but also as to their worries, doubts, despairs, loves and hates by trained psychologists. There will be the physical examination at the gymnasium, the psychological examination in the laboratory.

Inverting a famed trade slogan, Dr. Faunce declared: "Hundreds of American students are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." The appointment of "the best men in the medical profession" was expected to save unbalanced Brown students from the tender mercies of the psychiatrist, from whose diagnoses amateur introspectors have been known to derive harmful results, trying to "live up to their characteristics."