Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What, as Americans, our forefathers and our peers have done in bring the semitics here, we, also as Americans, must submit is done and, we had better make the best of it--and the best is education, not suppression of native facilities that must possess some latent good. But away with argument. they're here, in Harvard, and nobody's going to put them out, not even supposing that it were desired to put them out. They are part of our cosmopolitan structure, our democratic structure. If you please. They have some with evolution and other things and they...
...regard this undertaking," he declared, "as one of exceeding importance in the field of science. It is a genuine attempt to investigate the psychic field. It will be carried out with a strictly scientific attitude. It will possess every possible advantage to assist research. And if it fails, I predict that an end will be made of scientific investigation for many years to come...
...saying that "the younger men are rebelling." They are, indeed, rebelling against this narrow and mediaeval view of education. They have made up their minds that they did not come to college to be "filled". They came to develop themselves to the fullest. They have discovered that they possess not only a brain, but also a body, and an intangible something besides, called for lack of a better word, spirit--the core of personality which animates a man and makes him greater than a clod. Mere assimilation of facts and details, important as this is in providing the basis...
...hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...student might at first feel dissatisfied with the notion that his highest level of intelligence has already been reached. But a little thought dispells this uncomfortable feeling. In the first place, the rare thing is not to possess intelligence, but to utilize it. Probably no one will ever know how much the "normal" individual could accomplish, if means were found to extract and utilize all his thinking powers. Since no one does know everyone secretly prides himself that (except in particulars) he "has as good a head as the next...