Word: intellection
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Leopold of Austria was puny of intellect, body, honor. His petty vindictiveness he turned on the one man who was indispensable to his political position-Christian of Kurland, mercenary soldier, master of the art of war, gentleman of fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only...
...Harvard, comes to the conclusion that the welding together of imagination and knowledge is the true function of a university. The imaginative consideration of acquired knowledge is the duty of teacher and student alike; the contact of the mind of the scholar engaged in research with the eager intellect of the young at its most imaginative stage is the prescription for the fulfillment of this task...
From many, many mouths has come the plaint that Harvard takes things of the intellect too seriously, to the exclusion of the collegiate heroism of romance. The charge has gone unanswered, while Harvard continued on its path. Erring the University may be; but one feels somewhat less inclined to subscribe to such a belief, as time brings no great disapproval of her methods, but rather an access of those once doubting...
After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen...
...Casey is an animated gentleman of great intellect and vitality, whose service to the anthracite cause and labor as a whole is immeasurable. He was a "breaker-boy" at one time...