Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasis on the teaching of intelligent citizenship, which, in the words of Ernest Bates, is "knowledge of the nature of man, society, and government," then Harvard appears well on the way to its accomplishment. It by such an education is meant the broad cultivation of a man's intellect and social awareness with development of the mind as possibly the only tangible result, then Harvard is tending away from this ideal...
...toward mysticism. In Those Barren Leaves (1925). he announced that it is not the fools of this world who turn mystics. In Point Counter Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel...
...open to debate, but the fact that our rapidly changing development, scientifically and materially, has produced distraction resulting in a considerable flight from God, whatever the word may signify, personally or externally, has been much asserted. Professor Munn's opinion that we trust too much to human intellect, and will not learn to pray until some overwhclming experience forces us to our knees, is applicable to many of us in this age which considers itself so self-sufficient. Even more significant is the common acceptance of the past as hopeless and the future as not worth worrying over. The faith...
...practicality of the scientist, for the gradual introduction and extension of the plan have insured its success. President Conant felt that the idea provided a chance, well worth society's while to offer, for a few individuals of exceptional character and ability who lacked financial means to develop their intellect in a great university such as Harvard...
...youth or that he is fit to be put at the head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry...