Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellect is spacious...
...Turkish intellect was able to foresee these possibilities in economic rivalry at Lauzanne, but it failed to realize that some countries can settle differences by compromise rather than by war. It failed to see that the United States need not abandon the "open door" policy which Secretary Hughes enunciated last fall, and which leaves a territory as open to French or British as to American citizens. Turkish politics seem not to have developed along with the politics of western countries, and appear unaware that "international improvement", as Lord Robert Cecil puts it, "is progressing from rivalry to cooperation...
...picture of the situation in which a set of men would find themselves if they succeeded in sweeping away all the influences of past ages and everything which they themselves had not discovered or produced. His conclusion was that in such a case: "A race with ten times the intellect, twenty times the powers, and fifty times the virtues of any race that ever lived on earth would end within a generation in a state of hopeless barbarism; the earth would return to the days of primeval forests and swamps, and man descend almost to the level of the monkey...
However, Dr. Fosdick stated that he was not predicting a return to dogma, but rather a growing mistrust in the intellect as the sole guide of life without reference to the spiritual side...
...which now throttles the advancement of learning. Surely such a schedule might be a means by which some of the vital forces of young Americans could be diverted from their present expression in class-room excursioning, note-taking and athletics to study, thought and in the end training of intellect and acquisition of knowledge, the presupposed but thwarted aims of college education. JOHN A. HAESKLER. '23 April...