Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taken to instructors. If this pamphlet were issued we should elect courses instead of men. The prejudiced statements of men who have had the elective would be taken for what they are worth, and we should have a satisfactory description of the work done, apart from the amenities or human frailties of the instructors...
...tumbled bed. He remonstrates at first with her, but soon perceives, from her oaths, perhaps, that even a Goody has no respect for a Freshman; still he is comforted by the vain hope that he will soon receive a visit from that victim of a task too great for human powers, who is supposed to be able to superintend a force of twenty five or thirty shiftless, shirking women, who have to do their work in three hundred rooms. Even if he is ever visited, he finds a single complaint of no use, for the "Queen Goody" has no time...
...second reason why many students give so little attention to their health is that they are ignorant of the construction of the human body, and of the "rules and regulations" necessary to be observed in order to keep this wonderful servant of the human will in perfect working condition. At home the majority of us learn only general maxims in this regard, such as, "Don't get in a perspiration and then stand in a draught," or "When you don't feel quite well omit a meal and give Nature a chance to recover"; but of the circulation...
Here at Harvard we have one course (Nat. Hist. 3), which relates in some degree to the construction of the human body; but the word "Comparative" in connection with the "Anatomy" proves a bugbear to many who would like to know something of their own frames, but cannot spare time to investigate the nature of the twenty-nine vertebrae in the tail of the Archeopteryx, or the peculiar structure of the tooth of the Labyrinthodon...
...article on University Lectures in a recent number of the Magenta expressed a need that is widely felt. The Physiology and Hygiene of the Human Body is one subject on which a course of Lectures, illustrated by specimens, would be appreciated and gladly attended by many students. Surely there are several instructors here who are competent to enlighten our mental darkness in this regard, and relieve us from our painful, not to say shameful, ignorance. Feeling the benefit of the Shaksperian and Homeric readings, and of the lectures on French literature; like Oliver Twist, we cry for "more." We hope...