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More important, in my view, is the effort to train the intellect of students. One form in which this occurs is through acquiring a mastery of the various disciplines or modes of conceptual inquiry. This effort constitutes a major justification for the concentration requirement and will often provide the student with a method of understanding and investigating problems of interest even if he does not pursue a career closely related to his major field...
When he died, Harry Truman was under no illusion that he was a giant of intellect or even a "great" man. He was, as has been said, perhaps the greatest little man the U.S. has known. In a nation founded on the principle that ultimate wisdom lodges in its citizens, that is no mean accolade...
...rumpled, bow-tied man who seemed to hate the necessities of electioneering and gave the appearance of someone who was barely muddling through. Nonetheless, he almost always got what he wanted in the end. The truth was that his amiable, unpretentious manner concealed a first-rate intellect, which was sometimes too generous in judging people but seldom wrong in discerning essential issues. Toronto-born, he served during World War I in the Royal Flying Corps, but was invalided home before he could get to France. After the war he settled as a history lecturer at the University of Toronto (where...
...other fields. The Man of the Year in 1970, West Germany's Willy Brandt, continued pursuing his Ostpolitik with the signing of a treaty normalizing relations between the two Germanys, and won a surprisingly generous mandate at the polls from his people for it. But the primary will and intellect behind the emerging alignments resided in the White House...
...astronauts held a press conference in space, answering newsmen's questions , relayed to them by Mission Control. How did they feel about the decision to end the Apollo program and manned exploration of the moon? Cernan was outspoken, calling it "an abnormal restraint of man's intellect at this point in time." Next day, however, Richard Nixon had some reassuring words for the astronauts and NASA: "The making of space history will continue, and this nation means to play a major role in its making...The more we look back the more we are reminded that our thrust...