Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...
...makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole assemblage to laugh violently. The earnest person needs many sun circles flashed into his make-up to keep him human and with a true perspective. An occasional joke or smile or other evidence of sense of humor trickle the sun circles into life and make the highlights and the shades stand out more clearly. --Michigan Daily...
...When the telegram of The Fatherland arrived, asking for a holiday greeting as a contribution to the Christmas number, I was sitting in my psychological laboratory with a group of students engaged in a complicated psychological research. We were just experimenting on some subtle functions of the human memory, studying the conditions under which man remembers and forgets. Some of the results were very queer. We found that the mind does not hold or lose its memory ideas in a mechanical way, but that everything depends upon purposes; ideas which are gathered with a certain aim quickly fade away when...
...This danger would really-threaten us if the old popular doctrine of human memory were right. But it is wrong, utterly wrong; and the psychologist's laboratory message is therefore needed, indeed. It is filled with the promise of a happier future. Those hateful ideas clustered about legends and lies were grasped as weapons of war--when the war is over they have lost their purpose and at once they will fall asunder. No trace will remain; those who hated most hotly will forget most quickly. Men will look one another in the face with astonishment; the spell will...
This was one manifestation of Professor Muensterberg's many abilities, for he was a distinctly remarkable man. When he took his place in the Harvard Faculty, psychology, as taught in most American colleges, was baseless assumptions in regard to the workings of the human brain. It had no relation to the practical facts of life, was of no imaginable utility in a workaday world, and appealed only to a very small class of closet philosophers who had no interest in Things as They Are. That Professor Muensterberg "changed all that" cannot be claimed, but it is true...