Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would...
...stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over our heads, and the regular answer of the German sheels, seeking out the English batteries, whining past us and then exploding...
...attitude of protest against special measures of taxation has usually been supposed indigenous in human nature, but the early returns upon the public's acceptance of the increased postal rates might appear to give this tradition defiance. How the bulk of the mails has been affected is not yet announced. What has been observed, however, is the surprising fact that a great many people have been placing three-cents worth of postage both on the letters for delivery outside the Boston district, which require it, and on those for delivery within the district, which do not require it. Apparently...
...view this battle is of no importance. Lieutenant Morize told us last summer that such a raid is perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
...been said by some who study history, that times make men; and again, by others who study history, that men make the times. Neither statement is a full truth, even as human truth is constituted. For there have been great epochs with small men, and small epochs with great men, who burst their hearts against the narrow walks of their environment, and died...