Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enjoyed the intimate friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth of intellectual as well as personal sympathies. The country has lost a scholar who stood for the beautiful in art, in literature, and in human life, and spread his teachings among great numbers; Harvard has lost a teacher through whom many of her sons have come in contact with what is best in literature and the fine arts, and a friend, besides, whose memory will be cherished in even higher esteem by those who knew...
...scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings. Mechanical contrivances for recording temperature and pressure were therefore devised and sent up in empty balloons. These were made of rubber which steadily expanded as it rose and finally exploded, forming a parachute that brought the instruments safely back to earth. These experiments were also carried on from yachts...
...book-notice on Mr. Ficke's "The Earth Lassion," and an editorial on "The Professor and the Undergraduate." Perhaps the presence of so much solemn verse has put the editor in a pessimistic mood for he bewails the ignorance and stupidity which estrauges student and professor from helpful human relations. I have personally seen so little of this estrangement that I cannot write on it intelligently, if it does exist. One of the best things I have gained from my teaching has been the friendship of students; one living among eternal youth--for undergraduates represent eternal youth--must necessarily himself...
...most unhappy because of the breaking off of his engagement to a beautiful young girl, and was consequently pouring out his grief and his despair in impassioned music. In fact, the first movement of this symphony is literally a musical expression of the struggle between Fate and the human soul. But Beethoven's wonderful music is never narrowly personal. Its great influence with the public the world over comes from the fact that Beethoven, through his own intensity and depth of feeling, succeeds in voicing the sorrows, the aspirations, and the unsatisfied ideals of all humanity. This moving influence...
Glorified celestial existence is the final goal of most religions. In Northern Buddhism this is not the goal but an intermediate step in normal evolution between the human and the infinite consciousness...