Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public lectures to be given at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, on Sunday afternoons, beginning January 3 and ending May 9, 1915. There are nineteen of these lectures by as many different authorities on a wide variety of subjects dealing with the diseases, care and study of the human body. The lectures will begin at 4 o'clock and the doors will be closed at five minutes past the hour. No tickets are required for admission. The speakers for the first month and the subjects which they will discuss are as follows...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science to be held at the University of Pennsylvania from December 28 to January 2. Noted scientists from all sections of the country are expected to attend the sessions and the variety of subjects for discussion cover a wide field of human knowledge...
...Undergraduate," and tries to find why a larger proportion of students do not come under the formal religious teaching of the University. He thinks we need more doctrinal preaching. One wonders if the strongest call to ingenuous youth does not come in preaching, as in teaching, through large and human personality. Dr. Fitch's own success would seem to answer in the affirmative...
...course of his talk Mr. Buckland discussed the Federal Corporation Act and pointed out its significance in regard to corporation directors. One of the provisions virtually declares that "the labor of a human being is not a commodity of commerce." "Combinations of laborers to raise wages are lawful; combinations of organizations to lower wages are unlawful. Why should labor organizations be excluded from the jurisdiction of interstate law and directors of corporations included?" Many other provisions seem palpably unfair, but time will tell whether the acts of the Federal Trade Commission will in the end be beneficial to the country...
...Cross collection yesterday bears abundant testimony to the sympathy which America feels for the sufferers of war-stricken Europe. Possibly some few may have given yesterday more from a desire to dodge the assiduous taggers than from the sincerest philanthropic motives. Yet we in America were less than human if we should have failed to attempt to lessen in some measure the inexpressible misery and despair which on this very day exists in the trenches and through the country-sides of Belgium and of Poland...