Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rodin; they grasp without effort subtleties of intention that the sophisticated perceive only tortuously, after elaborate reasoning. There is more in this fact than an illustration of the theory that only a stupid man has any capacity for learning. It contains two secrets of Rodin's brooding intellect that 'are also the secrets of his popularity...
...next meeting, on October 19, Professor K. F. Mather will speak on the subject: "A Trained Intellect: The Ability to See, Rather Than Just Look." "Out Social Inheritance" will be the subject of Professor R. B. Perry G. '98 on the following Monday...
...think all of those who have gone through the grind of the study of the Greek language will admit that it is the whetstone of the human intellect. None of the stone may be left upon the knife after the sharpening process, but the knife is the keener for the use of the stone...
Sooner or later college authorities, even at Yale, will come to realize that the attempt to make nobility of character depend upon an antiquated theory of the universe which no educated man believes, is fraught with very serious consequences. When a young student's awakened intellect rejects the metaphysics of his teaching, what then is to save him from throwing aside, as also without justification, his ideas of duty and morality which he was told were inseparable from that metaphysics...
...been announced. G. H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will begin the series, talking on the transition from school to college, on October 5. He will be followed on October 19 by Professor K. F. Mather, whose subject is announced as "A Trained Intellect: The Ability to See, Rather Than Just to Look." "Our Social Inheritance" will he the subject of Professor R. B. Perry G. '97 on the following Monday night...