Word: intellection
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...founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher edu cation beyond the mere cultivation of the intellect to the preparation for life in a free society and the discovery and fulfillment of man's ultimate purpose on the universe. These aims are well represented here today by an honorable company of colleges and universities sharing with us in an honorable tradition...
...specialization that is required for successful operation as a college professor is often deadening to the mind that would grasp for higher culture in the modern world. There now is, as White-head has indicated, a celibacy of the intellect...
...Often the only 'generalization' the professor permits himself is the textbook he writes in the field of his work." Outside his one limited specialty, "life is treated superficially. The professor of social science, for example, is not very likely to have as balanced an intellect as a top-flight journalist, and it is usually considered poor taste, inside the academies, to write a book outside of one's own field...
...that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved the Jew. It has given him, in his urban life, a "peculiar and stern conditioning," robbing his intellect of "fresh and erratic blooms." Nature has become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher's hope that Jew and gentile may fashion an intellectual merger of their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle trail of hints. The Jews...
...series of routine movie roles, worked hard to lose her Southern accent, finally got a solid part in Whistle Stop with George Raft. Then little Ava ran smack into a hazard relatively rare in Hollywood-an Intellect...