Word: intellection
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...really to love our country, we must make it lovely." This fact which Burke stated a hundred years ago was fully appreciated by Athens, Venice and Florence. All these countries devoted wealth and intellect to the cause of art, even when waging expensive wars at the same time. The only country which has systematically followed this devotion in modern times is France, where the artists in organized classes begin with the study of what is famous and beautiful at home and then pursue their studies further in other countries. This gives every Frenchman a chance to learn his country...
...people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results of a thorough study of the classics. He had an exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from an extensive...
...came the first collapse of his intellect, it being precipitated by his fear of an examination for the position of Clerk of Journals to the House of Lords. He had first attempted suicide, but had failed in the effort. After eighteen months in an asylum he recovered and went to Huntington to see his brother. Here he met the Unwins and soon became an inmate of their home. On the death of Mr. Unwin the family went to Olney and Cowper with them. Due greatly to the bad influence of a Mr. Newton, curate of the parish...
...institution, it has taken control of the institution, it has taken control of the work of that institution. All the honors are distributed among: the athletes. The man with the most muscle is the Great Mogul. To day Russell is Governor of Massachusetts, not because of his great intellect, but through the patronage of Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen the intellect and broaden the man. There was a day when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that...
...reputation of another man, is not that for which we hold him dear. His rare personality, his influence for untold good over two generations of men, this is the heritage he has left us. His life revealed the truth that the pure in heart see God. Behind the magnificent intellect, was the pure, gentle, tranquil heart which guided and utilized the intellect. He was one man whom we may call a college saint, and before him college men bowed, as it were, to worship...