Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...faulty, is poignant and beautiful. In Mr. Poore's poem, an exceptional technique is combined with a delicacy of feeling which is difficult to analyze. Mr. Stewart Mitchell's "Neith," perhaps the most remarkable poem in the number, is also the most baffling. If there were a fraction less intellect in it, and a fraction more of real poetry, it would be notable verse...
...being a profitable, honorable and very respectable profession to follow in this twentieth century all young men should have "adequate" opportunity of "making good" in that alluring profession. If Harvard with all its traditions, its intellect, its privileges, can turn out a "group of military specialists" . . . "invaluable to the country in time of war," then Harvard has done its duty by America...
...Beta Kappa. The degree and other honors overshadow the more important interest in the problems of life. This is a serious charge, and one that is ninety per cent. true. In choosing courses today the undergraduate should remember that he is disposing of opportunities for broadening and deepening his intellect which will not offer themselves in later years...
...growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
...Burk '16. We have often heard of the difficulties and vices of the making of a program for a concert; Mr. Burk goes so far as to wish that there would be no program at all; for one solitary symphony has quite enough in it for any intellect at one sitting. He also points out the errors of an unbalanced choice of compositions for a concert whereby one tour de force completely obliterates all the others, or at least totally ruins their effects. Any sensitive concert goer will say how true this is; but luckily, it is for the most...