Word: intellection
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...evident that you have the wrong purpose in going to Widener. You seem to be the exceptional Harvard man, the long sought after demi-concentrator, the superman of the library who can keep one eye on the book and the other on the passing scenery. For your type of intellect it might be well to annex Widener to the Old Howard and have built-in chorus girls...
...educational institution is preparation of its students for their future life. That ideal does not imply that every college should be a vocational training school. Harvard Faculty and students unitc in the conviction that a training in the liberal arts is the best way to develop character, intellect, and possibilities for future usefulness. Yet by abolishing the Placement Bureau, the Administration has done much to render the ideal of preparation irreconcilable with practice. The most important function of any Harvard graduates's life is his work, and no expense should be spared-much less $18,000 in rendering all possible...
Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...
Dodo was a railroad-station information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...
...intellect is at its sharpest between the ages of 35 and 40, according to Professor Harvey Christian Lehman...