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...Korean War Memorial was given to David A. Norris '58, and the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize was given to Michael A. Cooper '57. The prize goes each year to a pre-law senior of "outstanding intellect, character, and physique...
...realm of the intellect that the University made its greatest demands for excellence, and it was in his examination of the intellect that Rumplestiltskin discovered his best excuses for denying the importance of excellence...
Over and over Rumplestiltskin was induced to believe that his intellect could somehow do the impossible. Every discipline followed the assumption of University educators; that men could be made into what they were not by trying hard enough. The scientists were perhaps more honest about their quest than others, since they continually narrowed the questions they asked in order to make the answers they could get sufficient unto the occasion, until finally they were no longer asking questions about which anybody cared, and so managed to avoid explicit claims which they could not fulfill...
Indeed, the objective too often seemed to be the acquisition of "good taste." President Pusey had spoken of the dangers of anti-intellectualism, but he had never spoken very succinctly about the value of the intellect. He had suggested that the development of a University Library was essential to creating the community which Cambridge ought to be, and that the development of an individual library was a sign of being educated. And without really denying these values, Rumplestiltskin was a little puzzled by what these things implied about living, since he could hardly see that they implied anything...
...fruits of intellect unsupported by faith are not necessarily richer life but more often superciliousness, fastidiousness, or even lacklustre and despair," President Pusey told the Class of 1957 yesterday...