Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which Macaulay and his sister read! ' When they were discoursing together,' says Mr. Trevelyan, 'about a work of history or biography, a by-stander would have supposed that they had lived in the times of which the author treated, and had a personal acquaintance with every human being who was mentioned in his pages...
...faculty. Mr. Arnold's remars upon Oxford form a fitting close to this article. "We, in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to seize one truth,-the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When I insist on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this one sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and rawness, has been at the bottom of our attachment to so many beaten causes, of our opposition to so many...
...inherited, and that a near-sighted mother bears children with the same defect. This being the case, it can only be a matter of time to give us an educated world, every man and woman of which will be defective in sight. The cause of this great bane to humanity has been assigned to many things. Bad light, small types German text, light shining directly on the face, and the bad position of desks, have all had their supporters. Doubtless all of these may add to the trouble, but the chief cause is not among them. It is the color...
...class suigeneris. They are what their instincts and surroundings make them. An educated gentlemen is apt to be a gentleman even though he be a student; and being a student doesn't prevent him from being a rowdy, if he was born such. Mobs of course lose the human instinct; and we need not look to college-life to find examples of men who act like ruffians when in a crowd...
...still is troubling the minds of the thinking members of the veterinary profession is; "What purpose had Harvard in establishing a Veterinary Department in connection with the Medical School?" Was it to educate young men to become credible members of a profession which should rank as high as human medicine in the public mind, or was it to run an animal hospital on a strictly business basis...