Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduates but open also to undergraduates who have had some training in history and political science, are to deal with English Local Government, Government 18, and with "The Psychological Conditions of Modern Government," Government 31. Mr. Wallas is well known to American readers through his recent remarkable book on "Human Nature in Politics"; and, besides being a scholar of international reputation, he has had much active experience in English politics...
...make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom he is placed in the play are good people but their attitude towards him is the attitude of many of the audience. They cannot sympathize with him. But with...
...most significant feature of the January "Illustrated" is the evident desire of the editors to make this magazine a forum for the discussion of real issues. Almost every vital human problem arises in connection with some undergraduate activity. There is an unfortunate convention to the effect that college life is somehow not "real life"; whereas life with one's fellows in any community gives rise to the same political and ethical principles. In so far as the "Illustrated" stimulates men to think and write about the big problems as these appear in the present interests and activities, it cannot fall...
...third, he must know how to write it up in simple, concise form so that it will be of interest to the reading public. In concluding, Mr. Perkins emphasized the excellent training for other professions offered by newspaper work. It brings one in touch with all elements of human society and face to face with the real significance of life...
...popular Broadway playwrights in exploiting the emotions of his audience to no purpose. If he does, he will probably do so with much greater daring, and with decided success. But he will be following the lead of his surprising technical facility, instead of that of his insight into human tragedy. "The Nigger" is a mixture of sharp vision and professional callousness. Perhaps it is the parting of the ways...