Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, self-named Pius XI, last week celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination as priest. He was 73 last May 31. Next Feb. 6 marks the ninth anniversary of his election to St. Peter's Throne. Age has not staled his sharp intellect but has somewhat impaired his stocky body. Outdoor life, particularly mountain climbing, gave him a good health foundation. He is now fully recovered from his indisposition of last summer. Every fine day his ornate limousine, containing an easy chair, takes him into the Vatican gardens, where he gets out for a walk...
...implications are manifold. The question of why the students are inexperienced in the manly art occurs, and insidious doubts creep into the mind. That the South Boston attitude toward Harvard men is justified--that the "college young gentlemen" of Cambridge are deficient in masculinity--are conclusions from which the intellect recoils. But if Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when...
Recent examinations at the University of California have been employed to prove that the adult mind is superior to the youthful intellect in the acquisition of book learning. Although the results of these tests seem to demonstrate that mature persons absorb knowledge more efficiently, still it should be kept in mind that this condition is not entirely, or perhaps even partially, due to differences in actual ability...
...eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Union Theological, University of Chicago. They will be available after next summer...
...engaged in science are not able to gather together the loose ends of scientific data into logical and significant theory. The majority of scientists have no very far sighted vision of a broader, more embracing field than their own limited specialty. It requires far more than average intellect to comprehend the complexities of natural phenomena and to be able to build up the scattered fragments of knowledge into a coherent structure. Such capacities of thought were necessary in transiting the obscure and difficult geologic evidence of the age of the earth into terms of millions of years. The figure arrived...