Word: human
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Popular Science Monthly: "The Story of Cahow," by Professor A. E. Verrill '62; "The Evolution of the Human Intellect," by Professor E. L. Thorndike '96; "The Origin of Sex in Plants," by Dr. Bradley Moore Davis...
...human would has been made over since Yale was founded. She antedates the accepted basal ideas of existing civilized governments and their actual forms, whether called empire, monarchy or republic; she antedates all professions except the ministry and the law, and all the implements of labor and transportation in modernized countries. One may fairly say that since she came into being all the learned and scientific professions have been created, or recreated; for the ministry and the law have been so transformed as to be almost new professions. Moreover, industrial, agricultural, and social conditions have so changed that...
...should be ruled in the spirit of a broad and generous democracy. So high were the hopes of these men, so strong were their wishes, so firm their resolves, that our land should be the home of a free, united people, a field for the full development of the human race, that they thought no price too great to pay for that...
...highest end of Bible study is, however, neither literary, critical, nor historical, but frankly devotional. The best use a man can make of his Bible is to study its teachings in the light of his own temptations, to study its biographies that he may learn to know more human nature; for in the Bible are written with marvelous force and clearness the lives of men of every character as well as of the Man whose character combined every trait of strength and nobility...
...Charles S. Minot, Professor of Histology and Human Embryology in the Harvard Medical School, was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the recent meeting in Denver...