Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...acts depend on his character, which includes his will, reacting on his circumstances. His character is itself the result of circumstances and of the characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product? If so, I know not how we can explain responsibility. But if we say that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited...
...would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought...
...comparison with the small genius, which is possessed in a greater or less degree by everybody. It is the little drops of water, the single flakes of snow, and so on. So then it is also the little bits of genius that make the mighty college, university, world of intellect. This leads us to the conclusion that the interests of those of small genius should be considered before the interests of those of great genius, that the rooms should be kept moderately warm and not actually hot nor very cold...
...statue will represent him as a rather slender and tall young man seated in an armchair with an open book, presumably a Bible, on one knee. He is buried in deep meditation, and his clear cut, noble features indicate great depth of character and refinement of intellect, combined with a strong will and well-defined purpose. Competent judges declare that the work is excellent, portraying the thinker, scholar, and preacher such as John Harvard...
...death of Reuben Whittle Lovering we have lost one of our most promising classmates. He was a man of remarkable parts, excelling in all that he undertook. He combined great brilliancy with great depth of intellect, and with his great power of application, he was easily one of the best scholars in the class. He was a man of whom no unkind word could ever be spoken. He was alike generous, kind, and of untiring energy...