Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
...best things in the number are the five literary essays which are quite up to the former standards; not so broadly human, kindly, but keener and more exacting, perhaps a little intolerant. The four men who discuss Dowson, Poetic Drama and The Poet have expressed, very professionally, attitudes rather individual. Harrison's "Dowson" takes a fling at the old heresy that the morals of a genius do not matter, even while he has a little sympathy for the genius...
...fundamental object of the fellowship is to provide genuine laboratory experience and training to men interested in the human sciences,--particularly economics, sociology, social ethics,--on their human side. The holder is in residence continuously at the South End House and is in close touch with all its active affairs...
...professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania he attracted much attention by his researches and investigations into a malady which affects coal stokers exposed to intense heat. Being a skillful and scholarly chemist, he has made very valuable studies of the chemical effects of certain diseases on the human body, and for the results obtained in this work has won the reputation of being one of America's greatest physicians. His appointment to the Harvard Medical Faculty is most certainly a significant addition to its teaching force and will aid materially in that school's progress to the leadership...
...topic was "The Kingdom of Light: Upbuilding of a New Social Order Reciprocally Involved with Regenerated Human Nature." In connection with the subject Mr. Woods discussed the general principle of democracy as the utopia for a redeemed human nature. That the spirit of immortality is being given up is not as true as it is often believed...