Word: intellection
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...world in which every mistake has to be paid for. But at the same time it kills the desire to deduce from facts the abstract significance which they present-The student fails to see that the power of generalization is the greatest force possessed by the human intellect, and that facts should be considered only steps by which to rise to those heights where shine, pure and clear, principles and laws...
...Jones" is a short play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
...death of Viscount Bryce will be keenly felt wherever high ideals, brilliant intellect, and the finest kind of public service are held in esteem. It will be felt especially in America, where his efforts as Ambassador from Great Britain have brought about the best relations between the two countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship...
...authority on any subject he may find interest, without paying for the course, without doing the outside work unless he chooses, and with the minimum time expenditure of two or three hours a week. It is an approcah to the education-in-tablet-form for which our intellect-chemists have long been searching. Certainly a cursory gllimpse of the subject is better than complete ignorance. But even in visiting there is a necessity for selection. Time and conflicting course often interfer, while in many cases a man may not care to cover an entire subject in this way, but only...
What do they talk about--these sometimes subdued oftener hilarious groups? One might suppose about matters of the intellect--particularly in objection to the theories in the books which they spread before them. But as a matter of fact the unwilling listener is seldom overborne by the weight of this "table-talk"--he rather experiences the same feeling as he derives from overhearing in a Subway train two young supporters of Mayor Curley repeat to each other with variations the theme. "Gee, but I was drunk last night." Not that Widener conversation deals particularly with exploits in dissipation...