Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...function of a university, according to Cardinal Newman, is intellectual culture"; its duty lies in educating the intellect to "reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and grasp it." But a university must of necessity be hampered by the fact has it is practically unable officially to present to its students the opinions of men who are the leaders in modern affairs. Of course it can, and does, provide lectures by competent professors on every phase of present-day problems; but much good may be gained by supplementing these lectures with discussions by men and women outside...
...real thing for the student is the life and environment that surrounds him. All that he really learns he learns, in a sense, by the active operation of his own intellect and not as the passive recipient of lectures. And for this active operation what he needs most is the continued and intimate contact with his fellows. Students must live together and eat together, talk and smoke together. Experience shows that that is how their minds really grow. And they must live together in a rational and comfortable way. They must eat in a big dining room or hall, with...
...requirements will mend this condition somewhat, but a system which is an adequate judge of intellect, rather than of specialized cramming, has not been devised, in spite of experiments such as Harvard's "New Plan" and Columbia's "Psychological Examinations." These groupings, however, show that there is a greater realization of the need for new education standards. This realization is certain to bring more important results in the next few years...
...Chapin's prize winning essay, "Education and College," is stimulating rather than satisfying. He contends that the college stresses memory at the expenses of intellect, that the function of a university should be to teach the youth how to think, that Harvard teaches only what has been thought. Quite true. But he is a more skilful wrecker than builder. His Ideal University is unconvincing. Certainly this college and other American colleges are busied in filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority...
...Theodore Roosevelt was determined to destroy William Howard Taft for the offense of insubordination. He has maintained himself not because of the love and affection in which he is held, but by the politicians of the Democratic Party, but by the sheer power of the most penetrating and dominant intellect ever known in the White House. When a venomous partisanship that could not deal with him on a plane of mental equality succeeded in breaking him down, nervously and physically, the American people suddenly discovered that they were without leadership and that their Government had ceased to operate...