Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
...schoolboy "Freddy" was incurably lazy, but too poor, too brilliant to loaf. Luxurious Oxford (which costs rich students $3,000 and more a year) beckoned. To Oxford, after seizing scholarship after scholarship by angry force of intellect, went poor Freddy. He stayed there nine years, squeezed dry every scholastic sinecure, was called to the Bar in 1899, and, as a young barrister of acknowledged, unparalleled brilliance, moved upon London...
...Parham, supercilious Cambridge don, meets Sir Bussy Woodcock, self-made millionaire, at a dinner. They are mutually fascinated by each other's queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding...
...these is expressed by Mr. Corwin, Chairman of the Yale Board of Admissions, in his article in today's issue of the CRIMSON in which he states that the transition from the secondary school to the college should involve an obvious change in method to stimulate the intellect of the student. Apparently opposed to this is the idea that courses in the preparatory school should contain some of the material to be taught in college so that the student will have some intelligent means of judging his field of concentration. Mr. Wendell, the Headmaster of a secondary school, takes this...
Proud of his intellect, Yale has built up a fund of tradition about Patriarch Hadley. One campus tale has it that he taught his son Morris calculus one afternoon while out walking, illustrating his discourse by scratching geometrical figures on the hard ground with twigs...