Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...values and broadening its scope. Cynics claim that subject to be dead. A few go further and swear that it never really existed. But what do these protestations avail? For international law is living today, and living a more active, strenuous life, than ever in the past. Had it human attributes it would surely laugh to scorn those who are now pronouncing its autopsy. Or to make sure that it is not suffering from some hidden malady, let them call in consultation as medical advisers, the Justices of the Supreme Court. What would be their decision, and what...
Nations are being made and unmade. Young men are the inciters of revolution, and the stirrers-up of conflict. By them are the annals of war ennobled. It is in the very nature of human passions that the young men of the College should find nothing in life worth more than...
...unnumbered millions of years of fiery and senescent life has the earth known such wastage of human life. From it must come some good, some incomprehensible good to the generations which are to succeed this struggling generation, otherwise there is no reason in existence. As the Reformation was the age of religious idol-shattering and the age of Revolution the age of political idol-shattering, so this, the unnamed but magnificent epoch, is the age of social idol-shattering. So, utterly will they be shattered that not all reaction many restore them; no more than it may restore the very...
...guide the human machine intelligently, we must study the various parts of the machine and then its activities as expressed in feeling, thinking acting. At present the best opportunities for this line of investigation exist in the medical schools. Over a century ago a great Frenchman declared that medicine should be the basis for all public instruction. It is possible for the medical schools to give modified courses to students of social phenomena...
Every large city should have two institutions for the study of human behavior; psychiatric clinic for the study of methods useful in assisting persons to readjust their lives; and Department of Mental Hygiene, chief functions of which are prevention of maladjustment. Around these two institutions may be grouped other institutional agencies devoted to the study of human behavior. These institutions include the home, college, juvenile court, courts, home for dependents, prisons, organizations for the study of social conditions and the improvement of these conditions. Our success in the great struggle in which we have entered calls for a mobilization...