Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, comes to the conclusion that the welding together of imagination and knowledge is the true function of a university. The imaginative consideration of acquired knowledge is the duty of teacher and student alike; the contact of the mind of the scholar engaged in research with the eager intellect of the young at its most imaginative stage is the prescription for the fulfillment of this task...
From many, many mouths has come the plaint that Harvard takes things of the intellect too seriously, to the exclusion of the collegiate heroism of romance. The charge has gone unanswered, while Harvard continued on its path. Erring the University may be; but one feels somewhat less inclined to subscribe to such a belief, as time brings no great disapproval of her methods, but rather an access of those once doubting...
After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen...
...Casey is an animated gentleman of great intellect and vitality, whose service to the anthracite cause and labor as a whole is immeasurable. He was a "breaker-boy" at one time...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...