Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dance of Death" has been described as a "single piece, a long procession of all orders of men, from the Pope to the lowest of human beings. Each figure has his partner, Death, the meagre spectre who leads the dance, shaking his remembering hour glass. The old peet, Lydgate, who flourished in the year 1430, translated a poem on the subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject...
Friday noon Dr. R. C. Cabot '89 will address students on "The Intelligence of the Human Body." Dr. Cabot is well known for his activities in both medicine and social work, having written several books on these subjects, among which are "Case Histories of Medicine," "Social Service and the Art of Healing," "Rewards and Training of the Physician," and "Social Work...
...much the belief of intelligent students of the game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions of higher learning continue to rigidly interpret the amateur code for the hopeful edification of their erring brothers, an amazingly human populace insists on taking its education and its play in equal proportions. Yale News
...give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...over a monastic kind of education which withdraws from ordinary contact of life a group of boys of similar environment and denies to them real instruction and guidance in such matters as understanding the organization of industry, contact with practical situations in politics, how to meet every kind of human being, how to budget personal time and expenditures, and how to integrate earning capacity with learning...