Word: intellection
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...Intellect has become an instrument of national purpose," and the uses made of it by the East and West will be extremely important "in the war of the ideological worlds," Clark Kerr declared last night in his final Godkin lecture...
...same time, the Eastern and Western "Cities of Intellect form a potential bridge between the two societies, as well as a source of weapons," Kerr said. "To the extent the Eastern City of Intellect grows and makes contact with the Western, it almost inevitably changes its society...
...citing the momentous role to be played by the "city of intellect" in the future, Kerr drew on his previous discussion of the enormous growth in government subsidies to higher education, and he growth, in general, of the "knowledge industry...
...While "Intellect" becomes an instrument for national policy, and the university becomes more involved in community life, grave problems still remain for the internal affairs of the university...
Kerr reiterated a concern voiced last night that overly-aggressive egalitarian impulses might channel federal funds away from the large universities that have been getting most of it. "How may the contributions of the elite be made clear to the egalitarians; how may an aristocracy of intellect justify itself to a democracy of the common man?" he asked...