Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Without a faithful second team the University could not be brought to its greatest efficiency. The men who go down every afternoon to be used as the human dummies and charging machines for perfecting the first team players, do so with no thought of thanks or reward. They do it that the University eleven may be the better trained to win. The honor of the University rests with them almost as much as with those who reap the glory...
...physical forces, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that civilization consists of peaceful industry, of the physical well-being of the people, of good government, of virtuous character and righteousness, of education and intelligence and of the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects, colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the antithisis of brute force and are essentially a protest against...
...From various colleges we hear of what the undergraduates, as a body, are doing to relieve the human suffering in Europe which darkens all the world. At Princeton, for example, the students are reported as collecting clothing and rolling bandages in their clubs. At Yale there have been public meetings, with collections for the work of the Red Cross. Early in the year the Yale Alumni Weekly suggested Red Cross contributions in connection with football tickets. Though nothing seems to have come of this, it is now announced that on the day of the Harvard-Yale game, the Weekly will...
...Meanwhile what are the Harvard undergraduates, as a body, doing for the relief of men and women now suffering as human beings have not suffered in modern times? So far as we have heard, nothing. Between the halves of a recent football game, a group of undergraduates enacted on the field a burlesque war-scene which must have struck many spectators as an exhibition of cynical taste and blunted feeling. Innocently enough meant, no doubt, it was far from an encouraging sight. It may be said--and we hope truly--that as Harvard, unlike many colleges, is in the midst...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "Mendelian Expectation, with Especial Reference to Human Heredity" by Mr. S. G. Wright in Zoological Laboratory...