Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William McDougall, psychology professor at Harvard from 1920 to 1927, died Saturday at Duke University at the age of 67. Educated in England, he was noted for his extensive researches into all fields of human behavior including even extrasensory perception...
Since 1925, 70-year-old William Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post...
...hope of cutting down automobile fatalities on the nation's highways, the Yale Institute of Human Relations is backing Harry De Silva, former head of the Harvard Traffic Bureau, in an attempt to add further tests to the state driving examinations...
...faith in the fundamental goodness of human nature is destroyed by the bestial persecutions of the Nazi regime, then it is restored again by the spontaneous upsurge of sympathy for the persecuted in other parts of the world. Harvard has been a part of this humanitarian wave, and here the sympathy seeks to express itself not only in protests but in active efforts to alleviate the conditions of the sufferers...
...picture of mutual benefits for all concerned. On the one hand a score of lives will be saved, a score of students will receive a higher education otherwise denied them. On the other hand Harvard will gain, in addition to the satisfaction of having tangibly asserted her belief in human values, a score of brilliant minds, qualified to carry her standards to higher levels...