Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preparatory school student is only human, and when he finds older men, men, it may be, who have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard...
...Bangs, through his personal experiences, gave a very clear insight into the characters of several authors who have been slandered by certain muckraking magazines, dwelling particularly upon examples of the qualities of human sympathy which such publications have denied men like Richard Harding Davis and Rudyard Kipling...
...prose the number stands redeemed from commonplace by two mystical allegories of Paulding--not sufficiently dissimilar for one number--and Dos Pasasas's "Orientale," a clever, and entertaining story. Angels, however, is a singularly unsophisticated widow. Whittlesey in "The Old Order Changeth," seems an echo from last year, simply human and realistic--not of the order of The Smart Set. This order serves well for phantasy and the light touch, not for exposition, where, as in "The Movie and the Theatre" it proves neither delectable nor informative...
...Outcast" is as the program says, a "vital throbbing, human play." It is unpleasant in its strongest parts and there are few laughs to break the general denseness of the whole. But it presents in a vividly, graphic way, a question of importance to all. For this reason, and for the sake of Miss Ferguson's acting, if for no others, "Outcast" is a play which should be seen...
...wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything else but to hear well-spiced dialogue for its own sake or for the sake of the whims of its author, "Androcles and the Lion" is the wrong thing to see. For every human person with the least hint of an eclectic taste, it cannot help but form part of an unforgettable evening in his theatrical experience...