Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Both his poetry and his prose reveal a nature never quite integnated into wholeness of structure, into harmony with itself. His writing, at its best, is noble and delightful, full of human charm, but it is difficult for him to master a certain waywardness and to sustain any note steadily. This temperamental flaw does not affect the winsomeness of his letters, unless to add to it. It is lost to view, often, in the sincerity and pathos of his lyrics, but it is felt in most of his longer efforts in prose, and accounts for a certain dissatisfaction which many...
...undergraduate is too often apt to regard his professors as machines to shovel knowledge into his head. He forgets the human element. But if he glances back over the courses he has taken, he will realize that the ones he liked best were given by men he admired. The characteristics of the instructor impress themselves on a student's mind. From one he gets a touch of humor; from another a new and broadening outlook on the questions...
...School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some in the past...
...hope you will not be led astray by any human errors, especially in regard to conceptions of how the universe is run," said President Eliot. "Nearly everything remains to be done to establish just relations between government and citizen, man and man, employer and those whom they employ." Turning to the results of the Peace Conference President Eliot said, "The best outcome will be an enduring compact between the British people and the American people to keep the peace and promote the good relations of the earth." President Eliot expressed a belief that if the "force of law," were backed...
Learning is not and should not be made a thing of dollars and cents. We are, however, forced to consider the question of a respectable living for our teachers, of a proper opportunity for investigation, and, by investigation, of adding something to human knowledge. There are plenty of good men and women in the field of education. Indeed one wonders how so many dared face the hardships of a course of training that covers so many years and offers no immediate remuneration. If we intend to elevate our standards and make our methods more efficient we must, out of common...