Word: human
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Monthly appeared yesterday, and is full of interesting and well-presented matter. The only exception that may well be taken to the selection of the articles is that, with two exceptions, they are all poetry, or else prose about poetry. Even granting that poetry is the "purest distillation of human thought," the reader of a magazine like the monthly is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, at finding it an anthology pure and simple. It might have been well to keep some of the verse for the adornment of the next number. Mr. Francis Ellingwood Abbot contributes the leading article...
...society represents a great principle in political economy, the success or failure of which must make a marked difference in the relations of human life. For this reason the welfare of Co-operation here is the welfare of Co-operation elsewhere, and success here cannot but exert some influence abroad...
...recent lecture before the Cornell students, Edward Everett Hale said that the best opportunity of studying human nature was to be had by entering the profession of schoolmaster...
...make oarsmanship their means of livelihood? Probably not. Certainly while rowing had a precarious existence at American colleges, and there was no large body of graduate oarsmen on whom to lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look after the stroke and diet of the crews. Professionals were at least kept out of the boat. There is no record like that of the Brasenose Oxford four in 1824, which contained two college men, a professional, and an outsider of attainments unrecorded...
Professor James has an article entitled, "Some Human Instincts" in the "Popular Science Monthly" for June...