Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writers of the Old World. If the name of Royce is less conspicuous, this may perhaps be sufficiently accounted for by the more abstruse character of the subjects with which he dealt and of the theses which he upheld. A rare and high personality as well as an extraordinary intellect. Josiah Royce was one of the most potent influences in the domain of high thinking in America
...caring what it meant, is most appalling, for it shows that they have not yet learned how to read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only a waste of time, but destructive to the intellect. These students may, indeed must, know how to read books, but reading newspapers is a different art. The first thing to learn is to skip the headlines, except as a guide as to what the topic is. The headlines of the dailies are often unreliable and sometimes intentionally misleading...
...broadly trained men. The smaller concerns are now falling into line. Business leaders began looking for young men who could use their minds, who could analyze problems and take a fresh point of view. They found that college graduates were likely to have the qualities they sought, activity of intellect, breadth of interests, and some familiarity with scientific method...
...magazine, "Challenge," re-opens the discussion concerning the advisability of radicalism among students. Mr. Arthur Brisbane, of the New York Evening Journal, in commenting recently upon an editorial printed in the columns of the CRIMSON, corroborated the assertion that "real intellectual turmoil is necessary if the owner of the intellect is to amount to anything." In addition he suggests that radicalism and thought are identical. By that, he has reference to that kind of thought which leads to an ultimate improvement in existing conditions, which makes haste slowly, and reaches a logical conclusion...
Music is as essential to human life as a religion. The growth of true music, as the growth of a great philosophy, must be from the heart and from the mind. And to bring a man's intellect to the proper pitch for producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what...