Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...successful institution, one of great and lasting benefit to humanity, the proposed league of nations must be founded on the realities and not the potentialities of international existence,--on what is; not what might be. The chief matter concerning which much of the discussion on this subject lies in error is that not infrequently the parties in debate place an improper degree of faith in the goodness of human nature: too much, as in the case of notable English publicists; too little, as in the case of some of our lesser statesmen in America...
Whether the late war is really to be the last, as many of us hope, or whether there are certain inevitable causes of war existing in human society and inseparable from it, we do not know. What we, as college men, should give most concern to is, that war is a most irrational and barbarous method of settling disputes between states, and that we, as citizens in embryo of the greatest democracy of the world, should by striving for better government and better men to run that government, make possible the realization of the ultimate purpose for which this league...
...Sanitary Corps and who doubtless are disappointed at not having this opportunity should not forget that the great profession of public health administration, with its many branches, is open to them and that there is no more honorable or useful work in the world than that of promoting human health and welfare...
...engage in such work should have a fundamental knowledge of the principles of hygiene and sanitation. In America our industries are sure to develop; not, it is to be hoped, on the basis of efficiency alone but on the basis of efficiency, that is efficiency combined with human welfare. Beneficiency should be a fundamental concept in the new world democracy towards which we look with hope and fear...
...interests,--of good against bad, of gain against loss. Often-times it happens that existing abuses are preferable to other evils of a more dangerous and destructive tendency. But in the case of supervised study, one has to reckon with a quite variable and therefore indeterminable quantity, namely, human nature. Will the average student study more and better under pressure of compulsion or of his own accord? In wartime, perhaps, no chance could be taken as to the probable outcome of this arrangement; the students should feel it their duty to study and officers should be put over them...