Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally, since the most effective use of the human intellect has been directed at revealing the secrets of Nature, this particular compartment of man's knowledge has far outstripped the others. But there is every reason to believe that the so-called scientific attack, if launched at man himself, his social reactions, his passions and prejudices would produce somewhat comparable results in these infinitely more important fields. Only children imagine that this means a mathematical expression of the "human equation". But the scientific approach--careful inductive reasoning only upon large quantities of carefully weighed and weighted facts, with constant open...
...have refrained from headlong entry into the arena; with very sound judgment, they have directed their attention to the student--to promote a closer liaison between the "intellectual" and the laborer. After all, some students may be "intellectuals" in the future. And it seems probable that a union of intellect and manual labor, as exemplified by the British third party, would have desirable results results more widely beneficial, certainly, than those produced by the more restricted interests of "big business...
...unanimous decision of the judges here tonight, in its support of the affirmative in the triangular debate. Harvard advocated a flexible system of limitation which would bring into colleges men likely to be respected men in their community in later life. Yale called for emphasis on training of the intellect to accomplish the same purpose...
...speech delivered Wednesday night to the freshman class of the law school of Northeastern University, Dean Everett A. Churchill declared that an intelligent democracy was preferable to an aristocracy of intellect; that "while there is need for universities with high requirements, there is also a need for differentiated educational opportunities beyond the secondary school in which a larger number of individuals may be able to secure types of advanced training which will render them individually and socially more efficient...
...better way to bring about that democracy of intellect which Dean Churchill holds essential would be to provide a better course of training in the regular grades of existing secondary schools. The prevailing school system varies widely in efficiency in different sections of the country; in large cities, such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, it usually fulfills its purpose; but in the scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs...