Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...There is an almost infinite variety of choice in the studies which you may pursue. What do you expect to attain? I will just mention one thing for which you will all strive, no matter by what course of studies. There are two great classes of the human race; first, that great majority which repeats from day to day the same routine of duties, and secondly, the few who can go beyond the present and can disign something and are able to originate. This long and elaborate education should give the power of leadership though it may be in some...
...Human Death. C. A. Pierce '96. College Kodaks...
...University rightly honors one who has exquisitely interpreted this part of literature. To elevate young men by speech should be the aim of a university, and this an actor knows how to do. I present to you tonight one who has inspired and elevated hundreds of thousands of human beings, Mr. Joseph Jefferson...
...that when I was a stock actor I looked upon every star as a tyrant, and when I became a star I looked upon every stock actor as a conspirator. Shakespeare invented the starring system. Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus are all stars. These plays also were written to illustrate human passions; Othello, jealousy; Macbeth, fate; Coriolanus, the autocrat; Merchant of Venice, revenge...
...studies, is meant to show what is best in the old system and what improvements may be safely added from the new. The report discusses the educational value of the five factors of study, namely: grammar, literature, mathematics, geography and history. These five branches cover the two worlds of human institutions and nature...