Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been no strikes at all. They must show, and show conclusively, that the best interests of the country would have been furthered if there had been no unionism. Taking into consideration the ignorance of the working classes, many of whom are foreigners, taking into consideration the frailties of human nature, the inequalities of modern society, the complex and centralized conditions of modern industry, the negative claims that the history of trade-unionism in the past twenty years has been advantageous to the working man and creditable to such labor leaders as John Mitchell and P. M. Arthur, who have given...
Physical Colloquium. A Manometer Device for Air Thermometers. Wien's Researches on the Sensitiveness of the Human Ear for Tones of Different Pitch. Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...elaborates a half grave, half humorous thought with something of the same charm that a good conversationalist may give to even a little topic. The latter is worthy of mention, because, though devoid of any especial skill in phrasing, it does draw a characterization that smacks of real human nature. It seems genuine, even if not altogether finished, and after all genuineness is what one most wants in stories for College periodicals. Even trivial incidents, if through their connection with our undergraduate experiences, they touch the springs of our natural interest, are likely to prove better subjects for a story...
...important acquisition has been made recently by the Peabody Museum of a collection of Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...
...overpowering critical instinct which so pervades most numbers--little recourse, in fact, to antedeluvian poets or appreciations of literature which but for the efforts of the writer, would probably never, be unearthed. The first article particularly the "Ph.D. Octopus," by William James, strikes one as being vital and altogether human. The statement that only a man of evident native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality...