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...least one elder educator, spry, 75-year-old Alvin S. Johnson, president emeritus of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, this sort of thing is preposterous. "All the world knows," says he, "that the intellect does not stop at 65. Why, the best work of Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson, Voltaire, Goethe and Sophocles was done long after!" Last winter, white-thatched Alvin Johnson persuaded his New School successor, Hans Simons, to let him set up a faculty within a faculty of retired professors...
...implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions. I do not wish to challenge the good faith of the CRIMSON's writers, but surely, all will agree that...
...Roman Catholicism, said the dean, it "is a very successful method of mind cure . . . But with its arrogant exclusiveness and the submission of the intellect to authority, this totalitarian religion, formidable as it is, can never win the sympathy of any liberal...
...Medicine is becoming a social as well as a biological science. We would rather have a student with intellect . . . and a rounded capacity for life than one whose only view of humanity was gained as he passed from one laboratory to another...
...neuter pronoun," shouted Connally. ". . . Mr. President, allow me to say to the Senator from Missouri that he has a regular FBI intellect. He probes into these matters and imagines boogers in every bush. There are no boogers here...