Word: intellection
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Final club members made only few comments about i.e.'s charge that the club system was doing an "injury" to the college by "deadening or destroying intellect in the members." According to Porcellian President Thor Thors '56, "Nobody is getting too excited about the article...
...would be easy to dismiss i.e. as a product of sexual repression or sheer mysticism, simply by mentioning its many absurd assertions: "At Harvard, we have absolutely no emotional life.... Harvard does not cultivate a respect for the intellect... the students who are more or less artists or intellectuals and are busy thinking and painting are all stimied." (sic) But in the midst of the inanity and polemic, i.e. expresses forcefully generally felt undergraduate fears that creeping prestige-consciousness threatens their intellectual integrity. Although i.e.'s attempt to prove that the University is somehow responsible for human vanity seems unfounded...
...Paul Hutchinson was a rare and happy man; he knew what he wanted to do, and he had the talent to do it with offhand distinction. A minister of the Methodist church, Paul Hutchinson brought the lively and articulate intellect of an exceptionally able journalist to his selected task: "Communicating and commending the Christian Gospel to this age." He was still vigorously communicating when he died last Sunday in Beaumont, Texas of a ruptured aorta...
Animals have a memory but no intellect. Man has both, but the memory is an organic faculty, not a spiritual one. The inconsistencies in the Bridey Murphy revelations are understandable. Even if Ruth Simmons (Virginia Tighe) had lived before as Bridey, the only things she could remember are those which happened to her as the present Ruth Simmons...
...Pritchett's expose of James Joyce [Feb. 13] has been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...