Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Popular Science Monthly: "The Story of Cahow," by Professor A. E. Verrill '62; "The Evolution of the Human Intellect," by Professor E. L. Thorndike '96; "The Origin of Sex in Plants," by Dr. Bradley Moore Davis...
...comedian is to amuse; the audience is to be pleased. The stage is not true life, and the artist must exaggerate those parts which he may wish to emphasize. In another way, the stage differs from real life. An actor need never feel. Emotion should always be ruled by intellect. It is never necessary to experience what one acts. It is art that conveys the impression of reality to the audience, not feeling...
...significance of the personality of Jesus Christ we must first notice the fundamental needs in a man's life, for which this influence is wanted. In a college man this need is great, for the college man is a tempted man. He is placed in temptation of body and intellect. Impurity, intemperance, hypocrisy, intellectual pride, unbelief, these are only a few among the many that assail him. The battle which every man must wage against these temptations is a hard one, but it is only by this battle and the victory, that we may come in touch with the Living...
...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...essentials of music are three in number--melody, rhythm and harmony--having their effect upon the ear, the emotions, and the intellect. Music is also of three distinct kinds, which represent a gradual development,--first, pure music, expressing no thought, simple in its intrinsic beauty; second, "programme" music, supposed to represent or to imitate real life; and third, dramatic music, which is the accompaniment of poetry. Beethoven's music exemplified the first kind, but failed in the second, the "programme" music. It remained for Schubert to immortalize dramatic music in the song. His ability to set any verse to music...