Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice", a light and not too well written farce by the Hungarian Sil-Vara, made vastly...
...field of Sociology and Social Ethics is not allied to any single department, but is administered by members of various departments. It was created to provide an opportunity "for the combination of a descriptive study of the nature of human society with an examination, by the method of criticism and evaluation, of different sociological theories and of prepared solutions of selected contemporary social problems...
...required three general examinations, one in the field as a whole, one in the department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...
Besides making possible a larger number of research projects than at any time since its inception in 1924, the apportionment of the Milton Fund this year is notable for its humanistic flavor. Created "in the interest of, or for promoting the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race", the Fund has in its present awards succeeded in providing for work in close harmony with the original ideals of its founder. That research study in the humanities is often neglected for more technical investigation, the significance of which the layman often fails to see, is perhaps natural under...
...history as the story of men rather than of their generals has the importance of an institution, which has never had political aspirations on this continent been recognized. Such aid as is now given to the study of this virtually virgin territory promotes the "welfare and prosperity of the human race" in a very comprehensive sense...