Word: intellection
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Unfortunately, even if, behind locked doors, they admit to each other the weaknesses of grades as measures of intellect, academics are still likely to select as outstanding that which elevated them to their present high position: namely, academic prowess...
...emphasis on intellect is also reflected in the current predicament of that unique Yale institution, the eight secret senior societies. More and more students simply do not care to join. The oldest society, Skull and Bones, in recent years has had trouble finding 15 top juniors willing to join, while one of the newest, Manuscript, is popular, and proudly intellectual. Another society, Elihu, has won prestige by shedding some of its Edwardian ritual and emphasizing serious discussion. The most remarkable departure in Yale societies, however, is the fact that one of the estimated ten "underground" societies-underground because their membership...
...Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility which belongs alone to those who answer only to the dictates of a conscientious intellect...
...Even the pressure to serve the state," he explained, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility which belongs alone to those who answer only to the dictates of a conscientious intellect...
...worse is your calling a computer a brain. A brain has approximately 10 billion neurons, logic and memory units, and possesses the capabilities of instinct, intuition and imagination. A computer can have the equivalent of about 100,000 neurons and is a complex tool to magnify man's intellect. It is very important that the public understand what computers are and what they are not because of the increasing impact of computers on our society. DONN B. PARKER...