Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...February number the Monthly ly has found itself. After months of laborious mediocrity, it has brought out an issue that is brilliant, fresh, vital, human; unified by a definite ideal of social progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
...tested nothing but our culture? In English 2 it is assumed, and rightly assumed, that if we have knowledge, together with a little incidental power of memory, culture will follow. English 2 is not an easy course; but it is by no means beyond the powers of the normal human student. Nor is it too difficult to finish the examination in three hours, provided you know the answers to the questions; for, in the first part of the paper, fifty complete paragraphs are no required; most of the answers can be given in a very few words...
...admit that the normal human being with the normal human memory might be able to locate these and other microscopic and insignificant phrases, but I also maintain that an abnormal rapidity of penmanship would be required to complete this part of the paper alone in less than three full hours...
...Throughout the abundant social life of William James he was so frank and so obviously friendly that it was impossible to take offence at anything he said, and this made it easier for him than for most men to strike the personal note in human intercourse. He could get at once upon a footing which made a basis of intimacy, if occasion called for this; a footing which, in any case, left each new acquaintance feeling the gates of his own mind unlocked for him. He said jokingly, one day, that when he met a new person he asked...
...speaker. Among Dr. Jordan's numerous publications on zoological and biological subjects are: "A Manual of Vertebrate Animals of Northern United States," "Fishes of North and Middle America, "Matka and Kotik," and "Animal Life." On humanitarian subjects his chief works have been "The Call of the Twentieth Century," "The Human Harvest," and "The Philosophy of Despair." He is prominently connected with the International Peace Movement...