Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus...
...required to waste several years obtaining a Ph.D., if he has no interest in doing his research work in Philosophy? Such a man can prove as good a scholar along more modern and more unexplored lines. Granted that the academic side of teaching is the major consideration, the human or personal element must not be overlooked. For, unless a man puts his knowledge across to his students, he is merely a scholar, not a teacher. Again, should the political or social tendencies of teachers be permitted to affect their University position? If Harvard wants to practice liberality, such restriction does...
Last week's exhibition was notable for the number of human figure studies it included, and for the rarity of a Marin portrait: Myself in Wonder...
Amphitryon 38. The Lunts in approximate Version No. 38 of Jupiter's assumption of human form for all-too-human reasons (TIME...
...particularly when it is dealing with a subject as vast and intangible as world peace, there is absolutely no cause for employing these parliamentary tricks. The fact that two hundred Harvard students advocate leagues of nations, Ludlow amendments or lisle lingerie is not going to alter the course of human events to any marked degree. Nor is the fact that twenty out of the two hundred can impose their will on the rest likely to bring these men any large return, either in fame or fortune...