Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sadly true, however, that Harvard University and the cosmic order are not partial to lawless individuals, human or astral. The long established order of things requires that a man be at one task until he assume another. There is no Nirvanic peace between our cycles of toil. Until a Plattsburg applicant has been definitely accepted at that camp, he is both actually and morally bound to the training corps here...
Such universal love of the land must call for our commendation. The desire to live for one's nation in a truck-garden rather than dying for the same cause in a trench shows a proper philosophic regard for the value of human life. One can fight with potatoes as well as bombs and reap the harvest wheat instead of an unkind enemy...
...formed in the fall. The present conflict will not be decided in a short month or two. The young men of this country should make an immediate resolve to give themselves unreservedly to the service of the cause that their Government has championed until the enemy of human rights and freedom is convinced of its error. Since the entering of one of these camps means stern trials and responsibilities for the future, the Harvard man who makes the decision should realize what will be expected of him and should enter the game with his eyes open...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "This war will liberate the world and the tremendous effect it will have on the arts cannot be measured at the present time, for it will not only affect poetry, to what extent no one can say, but it will change human life all over the globe. The hackneyed question as to how it will affect poetry is of little consequence, for the great European struggle will not decide whether we are to write in sonnet form or in vers libre, but will overturn principles and theories that have been adhered to for centuries...
...fair show to both sides of the question. "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, Jr., is a play of Ellis Island, immigration and the Binet test is superficially the most effective of the plays from the theatric point of view, though it lacks the genuine humor and human quality of Miss Hinkley's play...