Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lecture for the benefit of the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee. "The Human Side of Trenell Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Sanders Theatre...
...Human Interest in French Booths...
...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
Cecil Rhodes, empire builder, dreamed a dream of universal brotherhood. It was, of course, merely a dream; for during his lifetime Rhodes was too busy advancing the imperial interests of Great Britain to do any practical work toward unifying the human race. He worked mightily in behalf of his own nation, and then, in his will, provided a plan for eliminating national lines and for bringing all nations together. The contrast between the deeds of Rhodes, and the desires expressed in his will is striking. It is the contrast between working and dreaming...
...Rhodes scholarships have accomplished little or nothing toward establishing human brotherhood. The foreign students have taken advantage of the opportunities, but they have not gone forth to preach any ringing gospel of peace and good will. They have returned to their respective fatherlands uninspired to lead the world. Their love of England has not been increased merely because they have benefited by the posthumous philanthropy of one of the most intensely English of all Englishmen. It is conceivable and probable that the knowledge gained at Oxford by some of the German Rhodes scholars is now being used against England...