Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about us we see men striving to become what nature never meant they should be. Accountants, who might succeed if they stuck to that for which they are fitted, become starving "poets." Men of good sense, capable of being good doctors or able lawyers, waste their store of intellect upon wretched attempts at humour. The most important thing has, in their choice, been disregarded...
Lost. - J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ. Bain's Senses and Intellect. Please return, if found, to CRIMSON office...
...question of intellect versus affection has been annoying the young ladies of Oberlin to such a degree that they have been holding lively debates over it in a meeting of one of the Oberlin literary societies. That such a subject should gain prominence at Oberlin, and not only at Oberlin, but among the fairer students of Oberlin, is seriously significant. The last place where intellect, as it reaches higher spheres, would be expected to disregard affection is at a co-educational institution. Indeed, the great champions of co-education find herein one of their foremost arguments; with the young...
...text book in Phil. 2, "The Senses and the Intellect," is very late in coming out. It may be two or three weeks before the Co-operative Society will receive copies from New York...
...occasion demands. That they should be known abroad as having more interest and enthusiasm in athletics than in anything else is not at all surprising. For their athletic successes are achieved during connection with the college; but those other and higher successes in life, successes of mind and intellect, are not really achieved until years after graduation. With graduation, athletics fade away for the most part from the student's memory; but the intellectual life seems then to have only just begun. Harvard past is famous not for her athletic achievements, but for the deeds of her great thinkers...