Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individualistic, skeptical, intellectually venturesome, and inclined to be lax in morale. Yale was founded to counteract its free thinking, to assert the voice of authority, and so we have the ground-gaining Eli. Princeton, largely recruited as of old from the South, avoids extremes in both morality and intellect, inclining to the picaresque...
Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
...from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, a good finger, a neck, a stomach an elbow (he might have added a head), but never a man. Man is this metamorphosed into a thing, into many things . . . . In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking...
There were other examples of collegiate waggery, astounding when one considered that they were the product of the feminine intellect. Radcliffe had turned the trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...
Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...