Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...business man no such opportunities are offered; the work that he does here cannot be said to fit him for commerce or banking, in more than a general way. It is profitable, as all learning is profitable, in so far as it refines and improves the intellect. But it is rarely practical...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Argus indulges in some very patriotic talk about Wesleyan, and consoles himself by saying that a college which can produce men of intellect is better than one that produces a fine crew. The local editor says, among other things, "We believe that compulsory attendance at religious exercises, under any circumstances, is but a relic of the barbarous ages." We fully coincide with his opinion, and are agreeably disappointed to find such sentiments at Wesleyan...
...minds of college editors in general. At least this is the most plausible excuse we are at present able to find for the lack of original material in any one of our exchanges. People of the new generation have introduced the new self-denial, - that of the fast of intellect; and were it not for events, which no one can control, and each other's business, which every one would like to control, there would not be much to remark...
...Then, Mr. H., you are confessedly arguing from your own case. You don't deny that all time given to the development of your intellect is profitably spent...
...comic man gets off a pun as stupid as the jokes of a circus clown; and he leans across and remarks that it is bully. You smile and nod, and are pleased with the contrast between your own acute perception of the humorous and that of the Occidental intellect of Smith. Between the acts you meet Jones, who says that he comes in every night, and then hurries off in a mysterious way. Little Thompson, who thinks that Jones is the English for God, comes up in a minute, and tells you how Jones wrote a letter to the little...