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Recent examinations at the University of California have been employed to prove that the adult mind is superior to the youthful intellect in the acquisition of book learning. Although the results of these tests seem to demonstrate that mature persons absorb knowledge more efficiently, still it should be kept in mind that this condition is not entirely, or perhaps even partially, due to differences in actual ability...
...eight years ago. Its purpose has been "to cooperate ... in giving students, particularly undergraduate students, a scholarly and sympathetic interpretation of religion, chiefly through the channels of the regular curriculum." The chief method of cooperation has been to select and finance "young men and women of high quality of intellect and spirit" through post-graduate university courses, and then commend such Fellows for teaching and administrative positions. Eighty Fellows have taken jobs in more than 30 schools. Forty more are now studying; chiefly at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Union Theological, University of Chicago. They will be available after next summer...
...engaged in science are not able to gather together the loose ends of scientific data into logical and significant theory. The majority of scientists have no very far sighted vision of a broader, more embracing field than their own limited specialty. It requires far more than average intellect to comprehend the complexities of natural phenomena and to be able to build up the scattered fragments of knowledge into a coherent structure. Such capacities of thought were necessary in transiting the obscure and difficult geologic evidence of the age of the earth into terms of millions of years. The figure arrived...
...this poem are manifest the range of Robinson's observation and psychological insight, the keen light of his intellect, his irony, the lyric splendor that marked "Tristram" and the tragic intensity of "Cavender's House...
...schoolboy "Freddy" was incurably lazy, but too poor, too brilliant to loaf. Luxurious Oxford (which costs rich students $3,000 and more a year) beckoned. To Oxford, after seizing scholarship after scholarship by angry force of intellect, went poor Freddy. He stayed there nine years, squeezed dry every scholastic sinecure, was called to the Bar in 1899, and, as a young barrister of acknowledged, unparalleled brilliance, moved upon London...