Word: intellections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarships are awarded on the basis of (1) scholastic and literary abilities, (2) moral qualities, (3) force of character and leadership, and (4) physical vigor. Since the committee is looking for men who will excel in some particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than physical vigor, which does not limit the field to Varsity athletes...
Harvard has been much less concerned with the soul than with the intellect since the year it discarded as its primary function the training of men for the ministry. That was long ago, but one still hears the complaint that we have found it impossible to retain lessons learned at home by example, when other lessons are taught more convincingly by logic. Logic is a fickle mistress, and must be kept in her place. There will always be realms where scepticism is baffled, where science confesses to bewilderment, and in these realms lessons other than those learned in books...
...Stanley Baldwin made Parliament his gentleman's club, developed a knack for maneuvering among the other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...Hoffman suffered an attack of sleeping sickness which made him walk and talk slowly but did not impair his intellect. Like President Roosevelt, who was crippled by infantile paralysis, Dr. Hoffman indomitably overcame the major handicaps of his disease. His method of forestalling the drowsiness of sleeping sickness was to work incessantly from at least 9 a. m. until after midnight every day, to travel hard...
Returned Secretary Ickes: "The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect." Then, tired of talk, the PWAdministrator scratched $648,000 for Louisiana off his PWA loan & grant list...