Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...office has scored heavily by this new offensive. The companies will be commanded by men of intellect; the natural leader is a mere tradition. Yet we have learned our lesson; the necessity of knowing details has been impressed upon us. Glittering generalities are things of the past; the present officer must know how many men are in the Philippine Constabulary and on what date the transports leave for Hawail, otherwise he is unfit. In the old days to have some idea of the position of a soldier qualified one for an A, now to pass one must have studied Moss...
...Columbia because he believes that university to be "under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion"? No more inspiring act in the struggle of intellect against political control has taken place in the last few years. The vociferous martyrdom of Dr. Scott Nearing in the cause of "acadamic freedom," coupled with its demands for three-cent fares in these times of rising operating costs and his recent connection with the People's Council, cast doubt upon...
...rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that Mr. Lloyd knows that it is not. At Yale or Dartmouth one is blind or dumb if he does not know personally the large majority of his class; at Harvard he is fortunate if he can say "hello" to even a small minority...
Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...
...which give the foundation for specialized development in the future, are not numerous. Emerson says it in the words, "Nature is an endless repetition of a very few laws. These laws which determine a man's character have been recorded through the ages," "Character is greater than intellect." But intellect can never become really constructive without a basis of character to build...