Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...being made by scores of men and women in the vicinity whose lives were spared, but more money and more provisions are needed. It is right that this community give of its abundance at this time and contribute liberally to this, the noblest of causes--the relief of human grief and suffering...
...Mars as the Abode of Life," by Percival Lowell '76; "The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century," by E. R. O. von Mach '95; "Pedro Sanchez," by Jose M. Pereda, edited by R. W. E. Bassett '89; "Modernism," by Paul Sabatier, translated by C. A. Miles '53; "Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value," by W. H. Snyder...
...Committee's opinion that of the forty songs submitted the great majority were not singable at all, while a few showed possibilities; it was not in a position, however, to recommend more than three, and one of these was a parody. Unfortunately, Song Committee are only human and owing to this limitation are subject to human errors. The songs on the whole did not meet the Committee's requirements and it was considered advisable only to recommend one or two and rely chiefly on the songs of previous years this season...
...signal events of the college years. Like Geology 4, Fine Arts 3 was a "soft course." Would there were more such! Under Professor Shaler the student gained a kindling vision of pretty much all of the natural world; under Professor Norton, of the human. In these two culture courses the speaker gave so much that there was little left for the hearers to do except to wonder, to enjoy, and to grow. Students accordingly flocked around in such numbers and eagerness as we read attended the lectures of Abelard. To be properly nourished, each age needs something that...
...trouble. When you went to him, you felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties--and yet I well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest...