Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study and training. The teaching in colleges should embrace the theory, the practice and the analytical treatment of the results secured. Then men in the statistical bureaux would have that scientific knowledge which is valuable in practice. Social science should be taught in our colleges. The development of the human race cannot be considered as an object too insignificant for the study of undergraduates. The United States and the States should create experienced statisticians, that the census might be taken by competent...
...plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Now that the government of the college has seen fit to have board walks placed in the yard, the spirit of grumbling inherent in human nature must find place in some other grievance. The most evident evils now are the pools and running water which collect at the western entrance of the yard. Cannot these streams be bridged over or induced to find some other channel than the pathway of instructors and students...
...identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form of the nude figure upon the artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many...
...faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved in the past to be, and always would prove to be the sole permanent strength...