Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion which is apparently prevalent in many circles that the "Big Three" rating of Harvard is now confined to the field of scholarship, today the opening of the football season seems to indicate an interest not wholly removed from things athletic. Much as we revere the activities of the intellect, it has been appalling to observe the apparently complacent acceptance of this position to see the Crimson flying in victory over the lecture hall is not all that could be desired by a crowd returning from the Stadium. A university may be justly proud of its rank in scholastic groups...
...evening, Dean A. Hanford who addressed the assemble class as "Fellow Freshmen," referring to his first year in the Dean's Office Dean Hanford quickly brought his talk to discussion of the purpose of an education. He advised his charged to all toward, first, a development of intellect all power, second, the development of critical sense, and third, the development of individuality. "The best top the world has produced," stated Dean Hanford, is the highly trained mind However, intellectual power is not merely an assimilation of facts, but a constructive use of them toward the formation of critical sense...
...Author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...
...sounds and rhythms together requires intellect of the highest order--the difficulty is far more than in dealing with words and paints--and, granting for the moment Beethoven's emotional power his genius is nowhere more evident than in the structure of his symphonies, quartets, and pianoforte works. In such a masterpiece, e.g., as the Fifth Symphony (that in C minor), everything is just right; when led up to a climax, we expect something, we get it. Then how marvelously is our excitement assuaged without being allowed to die out entirely! The valleys, tablelands, and mountain peaks have the same...
...hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...