Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mumbo-jumbo ritual that used to delight the world of the universities has disappeared; part of it has died a natural death, part has been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice of a counter-attraction...
...acting must be distributed to all hands. But particularly to Miss Yurka as Gina, Mr. Anderson as the younger Ekdal, Mr. Clovelly as Gregers Werle, and to Miss Davis in the exceedingly trying role of Hedvig. These four, carrying the brunt of the acting, make the play an intensely human thing. They demonstrate beyond a possible doubt that regardless of what may be said as to Ibsen or his plays, in talented hands the two can be put across...
Over four decades ago the brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
...then that extraordinarily clever little people the Japanese who invented the lantern that bears their name, how well they epitomized the fragility of human happiness. Be careful to get the pretty paper things inside before it rains for their colored loveliness cannot stand the rigors of our sharp New England climate. But after all they have lighted the queens of the May it only for a night. And wasn't it Ted Lewis who first said "You shall be King. King...
Lacking in news value and human interest though a convention of deans may be, it no doubt offers more real opportunity for interchange of ideas and the promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard...