There is every reason to believe that a large part of the mental reactions to anger is individually acquired habits, consequently successful and satisfactory reactions are a matter of training. Potentialities of anger may actually be taught indirectly by building up the sentiments and mental disposition from which anger arises. Whatever will increase ideals and new desires, achievements in school which allow a better opinion of self and build up the sentiment of self-regard, of fairness and justice, are at work at the very root of anger consciousness. The study of the mental situation from which anger arises allows every reason to believe that when there is a lack of potentialities to anger, it may be built up in this indirect manner. The student who lacks good healthy resentment when the proper stimulus is at hand evidently is weak in the sentiment of self-regard, desire to achieve, or sense of fairness. Whatever exercises will excite the pugnacious instinct, if done satisfactorily may involve a training in emotional habits. Habits of good fighting in work and play, the give and take in debate, class discussion, the witty retort, boxing, the team games if carried on aright, afford good exercise for the emotions. To acquire good habits of behavior when under fire, to fight clean and to the finishing point, to take defeat in a sportsman-like manner, are valuable acquisitions educationally whether they are acquired in athletics or the rivalry of intellectual work. On the other hand, athletics and mental contests may be carried on under conditions of emotional reaction, which defeat the aim of healthy emotional habits and consequently lack their better educational significance. ----- Footnote 1. The Republic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIBLIOGRAPHY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. ACH, N. _Ueber die Willenstatigkeit und das Denken._ Eine Experimentelle Undersuchung mit einem Anhang: Ueber das Hippsche Chronoskop. Gottingen. Vandenhoech and Ruprecht. 1905. 2. BAIN, ALEXANDER. _The emotion and the Will._ Third Edition. London. Longman. 1875. 3. BRYAN, W. D. AND HARTER N. _Studies in the Physiology and Psychology of the Telegraphic Language._ Psychological Review, Vol. 4: 27-58. 4. COOLEY, C. H. _Human Nature and the Social Order._ C. Scribner’s Sons. 1902. 5. DEWEY, JOHN. _Psychology._ New York. American Book Company. 1890. 6. DEWEY, JOHN. _The Theory of Emotions._ Psychological Review. II. pp. 13-32. 7. FÉRÉ, C. _L’antithèse dans l’expression des émotions._ Rev. Philos. 1896. XLII, 498-501. 8. FREUD, S. _Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten._ Leipzig und Wien F. Deuticke. 1905. pp. 205. 9. FREUD, S. _Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie._ Wien. Deuticke. 1910.