Word: human
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expected to show, but which will not be permitted to stand as the opinion of the Harvard undergraduate body. For our nation--if any--should be capable of understanding Professor Russell's internationalism: it is we who are rightfully more and more assuming the attitude of champions of human rights as opposed to those of any one nation. Let us get rid of the old idea, which was so rapidly, passing over Europe before the war, except among the militarists, that political power exists merely to further the commercial and other selfish interests of one's own country. Professor Russell...
...pacific name. Inasmuch as Mr. Bertrand Russell is a social philosopher, it is to be supposed that he knows this himself, and is not chafing unduly at the restrictions that are put upon him. These are to be regarded as a part of the development of militant nationalism-- a human sentiment which was never more intense than at the present time...
...article includes an account of the ante-bellum relations of Harvard and the South, where Dr. Gilman eventually went to live. He was the author of "Fair Harvard" and a poet of some contemporary reputation. He studied theology at Harvard, and became we are told a most human and warm-hearted divine. The University honored him with the degree...
...unsympathetic reply to the "antepenultimatum," the Monthly launches a little manifesto, "On the Guilt of Error," by A. K. McComb. The pacifists of today, we learn, are the successors of the opponents of religious persecution in the sixteenth century. These "rationalists," "Castellio, Montaigne, Socinus, believers in the power of human reason, proclaimed that the truth might only be discovered by the free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many--to the Jews of Eastern Europe, who hold...
...play has, until this revival, never been acted in Boston--a strange fact when one considers the human interest and particularly the humor that it yields in actual performance. The fat Knight and his followers appear in their most amusing vein; the old King presents a moving figure of a dying monarch and father; and his son, Prince Hal, is a most interesting character study of the mind and heart of one who combines humanity and loyalty...