Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...same mental attitude as one might adopt in deciding upon college grades for academic work. A and B are the types whose bodily mechanics are commendable, while C and D are less satisfactory. The process points which we noted are as follows: Group A; Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head straight above chest, hips and feet. 2. Chest up and forward. 3. Abdomen in or flat. 4. Back usual curves not exaggerated. Group B; Fairly Good Mechanical Use of the Human Body. 1. Head too far forward. 2. Chest not so well up or forward. 3. Abdomen...
...generous appreciation of his subordinates and superiors Dr. Derby has shown himself to be an ideal spokesman for the one supremely human and almost uniquely constructive element in the great war-machine--the Medical Corps...
John Ferguson and his son have opposite philosophies of life, but they are united in that finest of all human bond which can come only to men who live their convictions. In Jimmy Caesar. Ervine paints three weaknesses which every man must fight; physical coward ice, life in dreams rather than in reality and a realization of fault without action to eradicate it. The play makes one weave into it one's own failings. That it why it is so strong...
...rest, with the exception of myself, and another equally junior (sic) member of the company, are engaged in exhausting the materials and the attendants on their respective subjects at the several museums. Their ambition is to add to human learning and to earn their Ph.D. as a reward for their assiduity...
...been going on for the past thirty years in the University Observatory. Night after night and year after year, without ostentation or public applause, the astronomers have been combing the heavens, searching among the millions of other worlds, their sole purpose being to add to the sum of human knowledge. Of all the new stars discovered since 1886, Harvard has the honor of claiming seventy per cent...