Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more anxious than the CRIMSON to see Harvard students intellectual, forceful, clear-thinking men. The Faculty desires this very thing, but is neglecting the inevitable tendencies of human nature. A man either has intellectual tastes or he has not. No amount of legislation will increase the desire for theoretical learning in the unintellectual man; no amount of athletic contest by his classmates will decrease this desire in the truly intellectual man. "You can drive a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink...
Herodotus assumed the human interest in events, and his whole purpose was to entertain. The modern view asserts that history must be an end in itself and other things only incidental. Its value as a reference book of examples of crises and problems is hardly a sound theory, as history does not repeat itself...
Yesterday, in his characteristic way, Professor Zueblin put clearly before his audience what many have blunderingly tried to express. As we are thrilled by the nearness of those we love, one of the holiest of human emotions, just so are we thrilled by nearness to nature, by the first touch of spring, by contact with enthusiasm, and by witnessing even so trivial a thing as some great game. The attraction is born in us and we cling to it at all costs. For intercollegiate games it is but one of the arguments, but one which has been forcefully...
...church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health, sociability, taste, knowledge and righteousness. He maintained that one of the ways in which the church could help society is by establishing a more rational idea of Sunday. Professor Zueblin's special subject this afternoon will be "Impersonal Immoriality...
...photograph from Birth's Formenschatz, loaned by the University Library, is now on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. The collection consists of representations of Italian and German art, buildings, statues, and symbolic groups of human figures...