Word: intellections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Agriculture Dr. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel stands for pure intellect. Mild mannered, younger looking than his 36 years, he sits in a large office and thinks. In his mind, apt in higher mathematics, are formulated many of the more abstract ideas found in the speeches of Henry Agard Wallace, for Dr. Ezekiel is Economic Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture. From this mind came last week a project which should make Dr. Francis Everett ("$200 per month") Townsend look to his reputation as an innovator of social security. Not only did Dr. Ezekiel propose a monthly income...
...memorandum from the Chief-of-staff, General Craig, to the Secretary of War, is clear and succinct in its condemnation of Hagood for having overstepped his duties as an army officer and public servant. Craig commends his subordinate's professional efficiency and brilliant intellect, but calls his remarks before the House Appropriations subcommittee flippant and in direct breach of accepted army policy: which is that no political utterances should be made by an army officer. Hagood's statements, designedly or otherwise, brought criticism and ridicule upon the army and his superiors, including the Commander-in-Chief, and are so much...
...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
...high time that these inaccessible assistants realize that their jobs are to assist. What though they be bored with oft-repeated questions and that ignorance of a narrow field which naturally arises from an intellect whose interests are necessarily broader? They are paid to overcome this distasteful boredom. Such irritations are the crosses which men who adopt this troublesome profession have to bear. An assistant is not earning his salary unless he goes out of his way to make himself as accessible to the students as he possibly can, even to the extent of sacrificing part of his social life...
...Public Speaking Department complete without debating. The value of the courses given is unquestioned. But it is one thing to sway an unthinking mob or a pack of loungers softened by a hearty dinner and good wind and quite another thing to grapple with an intellect fully as keen as one's own. Mental agility and trenchant powers of persuasion can best be developed through debating...