Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great many Harvard professors are presenting new courses this summer. Among these new offerings there are courses on research work in astronomy by W.J. Fisher, present research associate of the Astronomical laboratory; "Public Speaking and Dramatic Interpretation," by Assistant Professor F.C. Packard '20; "Abnormal Psychology," by Dr. H.A. Murray; "Human Ideals: Their Conflict and Integration in Society," by Dr. P.J.W. Pigors '24; "The History of Latin," by Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough; "Greek History," by Professor W.S. Ferguson (first three weeks) and Assistant Professor R.P. Blake (last three weeks); "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament," by Professor Kirsopp Lake...
Although men have, until comparatively recent times, persistently sought to find some mystical significance in numbers their efforts have met with but little success. The attempt to prove that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...
These fellowships are in the field of Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership...
...softly breathed by violins below the stage during appropriate soliloquies. The blending of music and drama is something more than a device. In the chorus of the Greek tragedy came first recognition of the essential rhythm that underlies life, which is never absent, and which is written deep in human existence from the humming of the child at play to the measured rocking's of placid age, from the Antigone to "Broadway...
...facts and exposing new angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...