Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eighth course will be eight lectures by William Ernest Hocking, professor of Philosophy in the University, on "Human Instincts and Their Transformations." On Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 P. M., beginning Tuesday, February...
...smallpox, occupied Harvard Hall for its sessions in the middle of winter. The weather was cold, the open wood fires were piled high, and the fire broke out in the night. This disaster illustrates the rule that it is inexpedient to leave buildings whose contents are precious without human occupancy at night. This rule applies to industrial and commercial buildings as well as to educational, but is often disregarded in this country. Hollis Hall lost a part of its upper story and of its roof in 1876; and Stoughton Hall had the same experience some year in the seventies. These...
...some years tennis players have clamored for a system whereby the University tennis courts on Jarvis Field might be engaged in advance. Now that such a system has been devised and is in operation, many men, with characteristic human fickleness, are grumbling about the change and want to return to the old order of things...
...that so much attention has been given to the brown-tailed moth, the elm-tree panther (or whatever it is,) and other pests in the Yard, why not rid it of that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel...
...influence upon the doctrines of contemporary medical men, and all his ideas in this respect have triumphed. Moliere dared to attack, even the most famous doctors and in almost all cases he showed that with perfect reasoning they were apt to base their theories on false diagnoses. Moliere knew human nature and depicted it truthfully and it was through this power combined with his hatred of the doctors and their methods, that Moliere did so much to raise the science of medicine and save humanity from contemporary abuses...