Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apes, we are told by the German doctor, the form of intellect is the same as the form which we find in man, but not developed to anywhere near the high point of man. "Moreover," said Dr. Koehler, "there is a great breach between the intellectual development of the apes and of the smaller monkeys and other animals, such as dogs and cats. The reason that dogs often seem so intelligent is that they are more docile and willing to be taught than other animals...
...divisional examinations justifiable? To the serious student, they are merely a proof of his general knowledge, and subordinate to his higher aims. To the other types of student they are an additional burden, a source of anxiety, or an unmitigated hore. Divisional examinations can never show brilliance of intellect, except of the synthetic variety, as they are too inclusive, and frequently contain questions that are properly subjects for books. Would President Lowell grant a degree to a man who wrote an excellent divisional examination and also failed to obtain in his Senior year the required number of credits? Such procedure...
...inventive powers. Close examination of the list, and full understanding of the objects of the different societies it mentions, will, however, lay us open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate,--a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this notice to the readers of the Magenta. I know well how potent are the suggestions made in these columns; how eagerly they are read, and how promptly they are acted upon. But, fully conscious...
...were not bad enough to have one's intellect weighed, measured, and neatly pigeon holed at the hands of leering psychologists, two university professors have now undertaken to prove that one's poetic discrimination can be dissected and catalogued in the same way. The test, as set forth in the "New Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry...
...monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition. If he has had his affaires?and he has?they have in no way diminished his ability to rule...