Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that modern life is a very complex affair is even more true than it is platitudinous. This complexity has confounded governments when they have attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...epochal report on education released today wishes to controvert this tendency. There have been previous attempts in its direction, including Harvard's roving professorships, Chicago's divisional organization, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations. But these often amounted to administrative palliatives; and the suggested concentration in areas at Harvard is one of the most coherent steps yet taken to cut across departmental lines...
Pure Hokum! . . . How can one (even an editor) "generalize" about America's million teachers? The range from top to bottom in the teaching profession runs the entire gamut of human ability from genius to moron (as it does in all professions...
...week Harvard University announced development of a new apparatus for refining measurements of light's speed still further. It is compact enough to be housed in a small laboratory room and hallway, it eliminates friction as a source of error, and the measurement is automatic-that is, the human eye is not a factor (the Michelson crew aimed their beams by eye) and the clocking is done, in effect, by a photoelectric cell...
Recounting their story with no Biblical diction, no religious fervor, and with nondescript, timeless costuming, Playwrights Coffee & Cowen make it plausible and human. To Mary they give dignity, and to her experiences in Jerusalem on the night of her Son's betrayal, drama. There is drama, too, when a likable young disciple introduces himself as Judas Iscariot...