Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have shown more devotion to a chosen author than he has manifested to his beloved Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully as Mr. Sargent. He assimilated all that was most characteristic and captivating in this delicious writer, whose...
...then World's Fair exhibit of the University of the City of New York is the original telegraph battery and instrument used by Morse. There is also the first photograph ever taken of a human face...
...twenty one chapters describe various excursions which the author made in the White Mountains about Chocorna Lake. The reader is interested in the movements of a human being and the descriptions of birds and trees and flowers seem to be mere incidentals, yet in reading the book one finds that besides being delighted with a story, one is learning lessons, unconsciously learned, but valuable still. It is the faithful record of what may be seen and heard in the world of nature by one who will use his eyes and ears. There is an excellent index...
...life of the human race, began President Eliot, has a long infancy. One third of life is spent in preparing for the other two thirds. The first thing that a man must seek is good health; this, however, is not left all to one's self for we inherit many disorders. If we start with feeble bodies we can do much to make them strong. Of this we have a good example here, for not only have we seen improvement in athletes but also in the average physique. Let no man despair because he starts out with some physical error...
...next great division for which we must prepare is feminine life; this is the greatest source of human happiness. The trouble with young men is that they do not look forward to family life. Nothing better can be looked...