Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applied to the higher but less vital activities of our civilization. While the college man cannot compete with the technically-trained man in the technical processes of production, he probably has a higher place in their ultimate direction. The man with the broad understanding of industry and human polity, not the specialist in one productive process, will devise the sweeping industrial reforms we need...
...idealism, we must not sink to the baseness of a narrow-minded prejudice. Let us remember that misguided and barbarous as the Germans appear, they are, after all, of the race from which we all spring. They undoubtedly have violated many of mankind's sacred laws, but they are human. When, crushed by the burden of insuperable odds, they shall finally turn their faces toward an honest peace, we must be ready to do our part in seeing that a decent consideration is given their proposals. In preparation for that time, we need not hurriedly condemn their every utterance...
...really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof and consider us as 'unfriendly civilians.' Come over to dinner Sunday...
...indeed tragic that a great race should have passed under the control of such a spirit, so utterly repugnant to human ideals of manhood, so utterly hopeless to the very future of mankind...
...anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace for all. In all human affairs, it is only the selected group that can be kept in a state of efficiency...