Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Chubb, in his "Harvard on the Defensive," convincingly refutes recent and wearisome attackers of Harvard, showing with pleasantly satirical arguments that Harvard has the virtues and defects of our country and time--a condition she cannot escape, and be human. Mr. R. D. Skinner tries to answer the dicult question: "Can Harvard be Non-Sectarian"? and though he sucseeds in proving the expected answer, his statements are not always clear. It is a stimulating subject calling for broad treatment. The undergraduate as spoken of by Mr. Skinner is perhaps too sensitive and narrow-minded, and the sooner he can absorb...
...Iphigenia in Tauris' especially is a live, human play with strong tendencies toward comedy--it is a romantic drama, with the climax at the end of the second act when Iphigenia recognizes her brother Orestes just as she is at the point of officiating at his sacrifice. The third act deals with the escape of the pair from Tauris, which they accomplish by fooling the old king who has a special hobby for human sacrifices...
...Medical School Lecture, XVIII, "Sex, Differences in the Human Brain" by Dr. E. E. Southard, the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...only one which accords with the principle of academic freedom. I hope the time will come when you and your colleagues in Germany will recognize that this course is the only right one: and that it is essential to the cause of universal scholarship and human progress that scholars should associate together again on friendly terms, without regard to national conflicts that have occurred. Very truly yours, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL...
...Hill pointed out that, although the consolidation of various professions had narrowed the old scope of the lawyer, yet the increasing complexity of society has opened up for him a multitude of new fields. "There is hardly a branch of human activity which is not touched by the law," said...