Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge Cerebelli comes as a refreshing aftermath to our slaughter in the "brain battle" of a year ago, when Harvard won by a system of cross-country scoring. Yale can once more raise her head and walk proudly among the colleges, as she contemplates the dual renaissance of intellect and physique which dawns on New Haven. Mother Yale has once more taken to developing well-rounded...
...brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
...country. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Mexico, studying art at the Mexican National Academy where his early work showed the soft imitative convention. Like most young artists he looked first to the Old World. He lived a dozen years in Paris, married a Russian. His restless, probing intellect carried him into Cubism, for a while, but he traveled to Italy and saw the Primitives, compared their simple legends with the confusion of the Paris theorists...
...story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human passions. The human types chosen to epitomize extant evolutionary types are the horse-faced woman of London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than...
...more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight...