Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Heerdt asks to be allowed to finish with words of Dante, and quotes, "The human race cannot live happily without freedom, but this political liberty must be based upon freedom of judgment." To this we may add, from the same poet, "Upright governments have liberty as their aim, that men may live for themselves; not citizens for the sake of the consuls, not a people for a king, but conversely, consuls for the sake of the citizens, and a king for his people...
...when the competitions are on a thoroughly fair basis. The slightest suspicion of partiality throws a shadow over the competition which precludes anyone's going out for it who is not on the "inside." Harvard managerships have recently been run on as equitable a basis as is possible when human beings and not machines are the motivating factors. Undoubtedly, therefore, the best men have been attracted to the competitions and, in a GENERAL WAY, the aim of securing the best men as been realized...
Last fall Professor Richards received the first Nobel prize in chemistry ever given to an American. His human interest in all his problems will undoubtedly make his oration highly interesting, even though the audience is not composed of scientists...
...filled with a deep, almost tragic spirit, reminding us of the greatest Madonna conceptions by Donatello. It is quite conceivable that Fra Filippo was influenced to a certain extent by Donatello, and he has in this picture reached a deeper and more sublime interpretation of the broad formula of human motherhood...
...wherefore of her large expense account. He arrives at a most auspicious moment, as all good heroes should. His sister is in the clutches of an unscrupulous Englishman who makes love indiscriminately to her and her companion, Abbey Sexton. John is a business man but a human one. He sees his opportunity, grasps it, and of course the whole thing turns out all right in the end. The Englishman is "halfway to Canada" by the time John wins his old sweetheart back again...