Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Politics, Mr. Cushing said, is a beautiful game, one worthy of any man's best ability, because in it you are dealing with unadulterated human nature. The great essential is being a good mixer...
...competing for it, and hard enough to make it a sufficient prize to keep them all in the race. An Intricate system of points and courses of examinations sets the student working for marks and the completion of schedules rather than for a new orientation in important fields of human interest...
...written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than this modest and unassuming little piece...
...larger colleges and universities have fairly well established reputations. Mention of Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth brings up defined notions of what these institutions stand for and the quality of their human product. Harvard for a number of years, has been thought of definitely as a university not exactly bloodless, but at least less boisterous than some of its neighbors. It has been regarded as cloistral, its vigor somewhat stifled by--er--snobbishness...
...closing, Mr. Rhodes called the attention of his audience to the courage, honor and human sympathy of "the most American of Americans" as James Russell Lowell has called him. Caesar may be called the mighty Caesar. Lincoln cannot well be called mighty, in the same sense, but the term "Honest Abe" expresses the opinion and feelings of his countrymen