Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of the Congreve comedies, however, and of minor delicacies of the seventeenth century such as the pastoral ruminations of Cowley and the sundry writings of the Marquis of Halifax make English 50b not only informative but oftentimes entertaining. Professor Greenough, possessing a very human insight into what appears at time to be a mouldy enough age, is an excellent guide. With him the student may enjoy the brilliance of Restoration Comedy and even come to appreciate the state of mind which finds Dryden exhilarating...
...thing about Fine Arts 1d, at least for the ordinary undergraduate, is Professor Edgell; even at Harvard it is all too rare to have the opportunity of hearing a lecturer to whom it is a pleasure to listen. The vast majority of those who come to marvel that merely human flesh and blood can speak so rapidly, smoothly, and interestingly, remain for an hour under a species of trance in which scenes from the Mediaeval Renaissance and Modern masters flash before the eye to the accompaniment of a symphony--multo allegro--of words...
...Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, protested that he had been misquoted in reports of his address delivered at the Union recently. It was charged by Dr. Straton that some newspapers had quoted him as saying that, "He (a man to whom he was referring) had some elements of human decency about him, even if he was a Jewish Judge", while in truth he had said, "Though the judge was a Jew and not a Christian, and though he had in the case to deal with matters involving Christian truths, he showed a right spirit and was absolutely fair...
...York City, who has recently visited Russia and studied conditions there, out lined what he believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity and terror of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Holmes stated...
...college students, and declares that the only fit companion for a young student of his acquaintance is a professor of Greek. This is manifestly unfair both to the highly learned masses who went no more than through grammar school, and to the professors of Greek. A glance at the human dramas called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that the university men of his acquaintance have reached their lamentable condition through...