Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vicissitudes of human events were shown last year in a case that occurred not far from Cambridge. One man wrote out his Forensics and handed them in as they came due. His mark for the year was 65. The Forensics were given back, and copied out, word for word, by another man who had been away during the year. No. 2 had a mark of 87 for his Forensics...
...college tutors are human beings, although it is the fashion to regard them as diluted demons. Like other human beings, they are subject to prejudice. Like other human beings, they habitually communicate their prejudices to others. And if you make a bad impression upon the first ones with whom you come in contact, you will find that your bad reputation will spread as fast as the report of a Boston engagement. What is more, this bad reputation will cling to you through college. Your instructors will regard you as your conduct leads them to suppose that you regard them...
...sure you are no coward, and I would not have you become one by putting in the plea of human frailty. What men are it is our duty to consider only as the starting-point to what men may be. To justify our acts by other men's is to set up an external standard which, in politics for instance, would induce corruption to grow stronger and in thirty years destroy this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion...
...have felt at seeing some disagreeable fellow, who had outstripped him in military or political life, or who had neglected to invite him to select little dinner-parties, packed off, bag and baggage, for parts unknown, must have been one of the most unalloyed sentiments that ever filled the human heart; and I often find myself lost in envy of the ancient Greeks...
...world. The paper is large, and the matter rather heavy, but good on the whole. We find in it an interesting account of the invention of a new process of telegraphy. Professor Bell, of Boston University, is the inventor, and "he is able to transmit the sounds of the human voice by means of induced vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor brought out an invention last fall by which writing...