Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princetonian and the accompanying editorial comment dealing with the four recent undergraduate suicides which you publish in today's Crimson, lack of synthesis in the intellectual development afforded students in our present educational system is given as the possible reason. The assumption that men are motivated chiefly by intellect, rather than by an inseparable mixture of thought and feeling, is essentially false...
...tongue refused to shape glowing, satirical, malicious phrases. Lampy laid himself down upon his not too smooth bed of humor, imbibed a long draught of sleeping powders, we presume, for nothing else could possibly soothe the torpid vapors of his mind. He pulled the too heavy coverlets of subdued intellect about his ears, and set the clock ticking backwards...
...Abraham's Bosom concerns a Negro who tried to raise up the Carolina blacks through education. Blundering, fanatically inspired, he plods to frustration, overcome by white prejudice, black inertia, his own blunted intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright...
William Van Duzer Lawrence, 84, retired Manhattan drug and hotel man, last month read a magazine article which enhanced a major apprehension of his thoughtful age. Young women of intellect, college women (said the article), were more and more avoiding what Mr. Lawrence believes is "their real career"-marriage. Spurred, Mr. Lawrence did what he had long thought of doing. He founded a college...
...whole matter up: It seems to me in these various ways, all we have to do is to establish an intellectual community to bind a group of people together a community based on intellect. I think that it can be done only in a small community or group. Our colleges are altogether too large. The great trouble there is not that our student body is too large but that our faculties are large. The great difficulty in this is that the faculty are too numerous to have intellectual unity of their own. If we are to have a community dominated...