Word: human
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must have struck many a man with a taste for the study of human eccentricities that here in our midst was a fecund source for the most varied work...
...Fourth Forensic: 1. Is a protective tariff beneficial to the United States as a whole? 2. Alexander Hamilton as a statesman. [Hamilton's Works. Morse's Life of Hamilton.] 3. Are the creations of the Fine Arts subject to rule? 4. Is the idea of individuality, or complete human development, more prominent in the Greek or in the Christian Ethics? 5. Has Keat's poetry any theoretic aim? - Due from the whole class, April...
...insult to injury, there are some instructors - I will not say who - who return these same books marked in blue pencil. Could human - much less tutorial - depravity go farther...
...lecture yesterday by stating that the principal elements that sustain life are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and that various kinds of food possessed these qualities in different degrees. The world's greatest scientists have devoted themselves to classifying foods according to their chemical compounds and effects on the human body. But no table of nutritives can be accurate in its application, as the nervous and muscular tissues are not the same...
...shares, and many a weak and trembling heart, which finally stops for very weariness, owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...