Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the humble beginnings of John Warren and Benjamin Waterhouse, one hundred and fifty years ago today, the Harvard Medical School has developed, in close step with the profession it perpetuates, into an institution whose direct services to mankind are among the chief glories of the University. Just as it has given its knowledge and facilities to Boston, so have its graduates applied its teachings in nation-wide practice, its spirit in epoch-making discoveries...
...hour after President Roosevelt announced his Ambassador to Germany last week, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the upper House and a principal Presidential spokesman at the Capitol, uprose to declaim: "The Nazi administration has startled and shocked mankind by the severe policies enforced against Jews. ... It is sickening and terrifying to realize that a great people should respond to impulses of cruelty and inhumanity which when they have spent their force will have lowered German civilization in the opinion of all people...
...drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English (as scheduled) he skipped back & forth...
When Bishop Barnes opens a missionary exhibition with African settings (see cut) his mind is likely to be on the evidences of primitive mankind in Africa. As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical. The impact of science on the views of Bishop Barnes has lately produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop...
...obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist the "martial spirit" of some future date, they will do a tremendous service to mankind. Continuous pledges against war may not always be effectual, but they help...