Word: intellection
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Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
...what a student sees of scholarship in some of those who claim to represent its glories is more likely to repel than attract him. The grind sitting at his elbow and the pedant standing on the lecture platform are poor ambassadors to the student from that wondrous Republic of Intellect whose advantages are so often talked about, but so rarely demonstrated. The normal student wants to become a well-rounded man. In the grind he sees an impotent and grotesque shadow of a man, and in the pedant, the father of the grind...
...equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is because he, like his critic, is a Britisher, and this quality is an immemorial part of the British intellect-an intellect never so ponderous as when it is airy and never so supple as when it is hard with scorn...
...Brooke Potter 2L, Proctor, will introduce Professor Mather, who will give an informal talk on "A Trained Intellect: The Ability to see, Rather Than Just to Look...
...singing of college songs and the speeches will be continued as usual at the first meeting. Professor K. F. Mather, professor of Biology in the University, will lecture on "A Trained Intellect; The Ability to See Rather Than Just to Look...