Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lowell Institute lecture on "The Fundamental Problems of Human Life. I. A Justification of Idealism," by Professor Rudolph Eucken in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston...
...about the problems of syntax or historical criticism, one may be certain as to which group of problems is less important, but one can not be too certain as to which kind of talk is less educational. The ability to solve a problem whose factors are live, headstrong, rampant human beings is probably as much needed today as any other kind of ability. Mr. Gardner's article on Quarterback play, Mr. Hann's on an All America Football Team, and that of F. H. G. on Modern Football, are particularly interesting for their analysis of some of the problems...
These masses, probably over 400,000,000 in number, perform the work of horses and oxen in the agricultural districts and of steam and electricity in the cities. "China," said Dr. Eliot, "is the one country visited in which I found human muscle for every purpose the cheapest form of power...
...Albert Parker Fitch '00, D.D., preaching on "The Undergraduate's Religion" in Appleton Chapel yesterday, asserted that the real and spontaneous expression of religion in undergraduate life is found in free and generous human service...
Continuing, he said that if service to one's fellow-man was to be the expression and fulfillment of one's religious nature, it must have behind it more than human sanction, there must be a spiritual as well as a human impulse. Not to serve is to die. Men grow dull, remote and old in the accumulation of riches or of knowledge which they do not share. That youth who is consecrated to this religion of service, giving himself to his God, as he finds God in his fellowmen, that youth is endowed with life's most durable...