Word: intellection
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...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
...high time that these inaccessible assistants realize that their jobs are to assist. What though they be bored with oft-repeated questions and that ignorance of a narrow field which naturally arises from an intellect whose interests are necessarily broader? They are paid to overcome this distasteful boredom. Such irritations are the crosses which men who adopt this troublesome profession have to bear. An assistant is not earning his salary unless he goes out of his way to make himself as accessible to the students as he possibly can, even to the extent of sacrificing part of his social life...
...Public Speaking Department complete without debating. The value of the courses given is unquestioned. But it is one thing to sway an unthinking mob or a pack of loungers softened by a hearty dinner and good wind and quite another thing to grapple with an intellect fully as keen as one's own. Mental agility and trenchant powers of persuasion can best be developed through debating...
...back to be Undersecretary of State. Such is William Phillips' career, a career which never put him in a tight place, diplomatic or otherwise. But capable is the diplomat whose career is uncheckered. No one has ever alleged that the present Undersecretary of State is an eagle of intellect, but he has done many a job competently and quietly. Among them was the distribution of $1,000,000, willed by a Sharon, Pa. millionaire, Frank H. Buhl, to improve the lot of Belgian orphans. The fund was so well administered by an unpaid staff that it has only recently...
...duck pants. In the winter he could be seen carrying an armful of wood to heat a cold conference room. In the spring he played tennis and fished with his students, shocked bookworms when he inaugurated a carnival and skiing trips, reminded them: "You don't live on intellect alone...