Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ability to fit into the general scheme and contribute to the common causes. Efficiency is the pass word, and Intelligence the be-all and end-all, in this conception. This end is obviously worthy, but it is imperfect; mere intelligence is not as great as intellect, and efficiency in itself is not progress. True citizenship in something more than being a "success" in the eyes of what is called the World. It is rather the ability to understand the world and all a place in it, yet to rise above that place with aspirations for something better than the world...
...produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion, long held and acquiesced in, that while in some practical fields of mental effort women may be successful, they have no capacity for science. And he would note, also with a sense of awakening, that within the past...
...analyzing the relation of poetry to science. Mr. Markham said. "There are two halves to the human personality; one is the intellect and the other the emotions. The intellect finds its chief expression in what is known as science and philosophy, and the emotions find a large expression through various arts with poetry standing at the head. But after man has explored the world in terms of the intellect, after he has mapped out life on the great pages of science and philosophy, still the heart of man remains unsatisfied. So man cries out, what does all this revelation...
...part played by the various tutoring schools. In reviewing a course, the material of the lectures is condensed and sweetened, the essence of the outside reading carefully extracted and flavored, and the whole fed to the faltering student in- a form most readily assimilated by his starved intellect. Repudiated by some, instructors, ignored by the faculty at large, these establishments conduct a thriving business,-and will continue to prosper just as long as they satisfy the need of the undergraduate...
Except for the close student of Russian literature the chief interest of Maxim Gorky's notes and reminiscences of Tolstoy lies not in their biographical value but in their vivid and moving account of the effect made upon one great intellect by another. The short volume makes no pretense of introducing the newcomer to the life and character of Tolstoy; it is an intimate collection of personal experiences, conversations and impressions intended only to throw a little further light upon the somewhat obscure genius of a man whose works have already won him his place among the world's immortals...