Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ostensibly an explanation of the "naturally superior" Ivy intellect for people from west of the Alleghanies, the articles vary from a serious appraisal of the Ivy League education to a less high-minded account of the social life of Harvard "wonkies" and their Princeton and Yale counterparts, "ayools" and "weenies...
...Perhaps with men like Marshall and constitutional guidance, we are finally on the threshold of the true sophistication and adult reasoning that our founding fathers perceived, so that tomorrow our emotions may be more fully controlled by the intellect...
...Theology and Jazz" [Sept. 5]: the Rev. Lawrence McMaster longs for the magnetism of jazz to fill our churches . . . But the danger of expressing religion through jazz is extreme because thereby religious emotion is emphasized to the total exclusion of religious intellect...
Will Achilles ever catch up with that slow but steady tortoise? Some of the early Greeks said no, and Professor Havelock, lecturing in "Greek 170a" on "The Growth of the Greek Intellect from Thales to Plato," will explain how they reached this and other conclusions. Fraternity types should feel right at home in Sever 26, what with all the Greek Gods running around...
...enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge me from my books to be a downright universal intellect, a man of encyclopedic knowledge. What a tragic illusion...