Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...moral strength, but fully expecting to be exposed to very great and undisguised temptations; he looks for a veritable devil, with green eyes, crooked claws, and no end of a tail. In truth, however, he is met by a gentlemanly-looking person, with kid gloves, a cultivated intellect, and a manner that puts one immediately at ease. He may resist this unexpected and alluring form of temptation, and gain from the contest a strength of character which, owing to the circumstances we have already touched upon, is almost always accompanied by corresponding breadth; but it is not unlikely - judging from...
...another direction, a different but no less manly and (to him) effective exercise is as well adapted. He comes to college for the sole purpose of mental culture, feeling that health, not muscle, is the first means to this end. With Tully he sets a higher estimate on the intellect of a Pythagoras than on the mere brute strength of a Milo of Croton. As far as exercise conduces to health, he takes it, since health is an important element of success in his chosen vocation. Beyond this he cannot go without loss...
...Annalist (Albion College, Mich.) contains this week much that is interesting and instructive. Its article upon the Edenic Intellect, equally brilliant and entertaining, begins with the startling announcement, "Human language hath personal as well as ethnic and cosmical relations." Let us ponder upon this, and when we have duly pondered, go on with the author, glowing like him with real pride at the thought, "To have placed itself at the historic headship of the race that cut off all pre-historic races, and crushed out of being all synchronic races, is certainly proof of no mean power, worthy almost scientific...
...business of life must begin, and they will be put to the test in a broader field, where other standards are in use than those of college opinion, the thought may well occur, whether their present manner of life is at all fitting them, either in character or intellect, for the part they wish to play. Few there be to whom this question, squarely faced, does not afford ample scope for profitable reflections on the past and good resolutions for the future. We have two extremes in college to whom a consideration of this subject would be highly advantageous...