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operate quickly, avoid puttering, producing mental alacrity
A rather interesting article on “Athletics,” by Professor J. William White of the University of Pennsylvania amply shows that the tendency of physical exercise and of sports requiring quick action is to induce mental activity. To learn to operate quickly, to avoid puttering, producing mental alacrity, will incidentally relieve many dentists from becoming accustomed to, and often even satisfied with, a mere day’s wage.
ex Wm. Leon Ellerbeck, D.D.S., Salt Lake City, Utah, “Comments on General Practice” (section “The Question of Speed”), in The Dental Cosmos 48:12 (December 1906) : 1179-1189 (1183)
U California copy/scan (via google books) : link
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William Leon Ellerbeck (1874-1932)