Word: intellection
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...effect of the story is made, the theme is developed as themes should be, entirely in action. A girl with every advantage of noble family, education, beauty, health, strength, practical skill, intellect, and emotional sensitiveness lives with the freedom of wealth and position in the most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends . . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible...
Naturally, since the most effective use of the human intellect has been directed at revealing the secrets of Nature, this particular compartment of man's knowledge has far outstripped the others. But there is every reason to believe that the so-called scientific attack, if launched at man himself, his social reactions, his passions and prejudices would produce somewhat comparable results in these infinitely more important fields. Only children imagine that this means a mathematical expression of the "human equation". But the scientific approach--careful inductive reasoning only upon large quantities of carefully weighed and weighted facts, with constant open...
...have refrained from headlong entry into the arena; with very sound judgment, they have directed their attention to the student--to promote a closer liaison between the "intellectual" and the laborer. After all, some students may be "intellectuals" in the future. And it seems probable that a union of intellect and manual labor, as exemplified by the British third party, would have desirable results results more widely beneficial, certainly, than those produced by the more restricted interests of "big business...
...unanimous decision of the judges here tonight, in its support of the affirmative in the triangular debate. Harvard advocated a flexible system of limitation which would bring into colleges men likely to be respected men in their community in later life. Yale called for emphasis on training of the intellect to accomplish the same purpose...
...better way to bring about that democracy of intellect which Dean Churchill holds essential would be to provide a better course of training in the regular grades of existing secondary schools. The prevailing school system varies widely in efficiency in different sections of the country; in large cities, such as Boston, New York, and Chicago, it usually fulfills its purpose; but in the scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs...