Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapin's prize winning essay, "Education and College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority...
...Theodore Roosevelt was determined to destroy William Howard Taft for the offense of insubordination. He has maintained himself not because of the love and affection in which he is held, but by the politicians of the Democratic Party, but by the sheer power of the most penetrating and dominant intellect ever known in the White House. When a venomous partisanship that could not deal with him on a plane of mental equality succeeded in breaking him down, nervously and physically, the American people suddenly discovered that they were without leadership and that their Government had ceased to operate...
...mankind. Christianity is the only religion in the world which places woman on the same plane with man. Mohammedanism fails in five respects: there is no place in it for the little child; it has corrupted the home and degraded woman; its dogmatism has confined and demoralized the intellect; it is a great enemy to democracy; and it is spiritually a failure. Hinduism makes actions synonymous with sin, and has no doctrine of immortality in the highest sense nor of conflict with and redemption from...