Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universities are among the most permanent of human institutions; they outlast particular forms of government and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendant vitality Its charter, granted in 1650, is in force to-day in every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides...
...every period of her history the college has been a true person, a very alma mater to her children. The vividness of such personification must be great in proportion to the prominence and distinctness of human life in the institution which thus assumes personality. Not the railroad or the factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does...
...occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically seated on a tub, could be the subject...
...narrow-mindedness. It would be useless for us to point out the false views taken by Mr. Peck, for we should be forced to quote nearly every sentence of the article. We fail to see how a man of any breadth of mind who is a believer in human goodness, could, with knowledge of the affairs of our college and experience in the life among us, express such opinions as Mr. Peck has presented. Our best answer is, "Come and see!" For our admiration for the systems which now prevail in our university and for the life and ideals which...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...