Word: intellection
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...Intellect will be the chief qualification for admission to the Institute, the search for knowledge its primary purpose. In the choice both of students, who are all to be post-graduates, and of faculty, no account will be taken of race, religion, or sex. If first-rate professors a cannot be found immediately in some departments, the subjects will be omitted for the present. Gifted research men will be relieved of all teaching and allowed to concentrate on work in the laboratory or library...
...believe it is for the good of the nation that more public school boys should come into business. Many of them are the sons of men who by exceptional character, intellect, or will, have made their way from poverty to riches, from obscurity to high honor Whatever force there is in heredity would lead us to regret that so large a proportion of these sons should be lost to commerce...
Aptitude tests may be interesting mental gymnastics, but it is doubtful if the abilities of the human mind can be lined up and measured with a yard stick. The extent of even an average intellect could scarcely be gauged in the course of a few hours examination. Such examinations have proved worthwhile in conjunction with College Entrance Examinations and the selection of skilled labor. The real difficulty would seem to lie in applying them to the more mature and developed minds of students seeking entrance to Graduate Schools. The system has been tried at law schools and found wanting...
...Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, self-named Pius XI, last week celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination as priest. He was 73 last May 31. Next Feb. 6 marks the ninth anniversary of his election to St. Peter's Throne. Age has not staled his sharp intellect but has somewhat impaired his stocky body. Outdoor life, particularly mountain climbing, gave him a good health foundation. He is now fully recovered from his indisposition of last summer. Every fine day his ornate limousine, containing an easy chair, takes him into the Vatican gardens, where he gets out for a walk...
...implications are manifold. The question of why the students are inexperienced in the manly art occurs, and insidious doubts creep into the mind. That the South Boston attitude toward Harvard men is justified--that the "college young gentlemen" of Cambridge are deficient in masculinity--are conclusions from which the intellect recoils. But if Harvard men are really uninitiated to the mysteries of the left hook and right cross to the jaw, there are those who will claim that jelly must be an important constituent of their backbones; for even in this age of soft living occasions come up when...