Word: humanity
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...body, said Mr. Crane, are essentials of life, and a person cannot afford to ignore this fact. We are not to encourage an inordinate amount of muscle, but enough for endurance and all the necessities of life. The way to get this is by outdoor exercise. Now, what the human mind wants in outdoor exercise is recreation, and not work. The Marathon run gives us an example of what men will do who are inspired with an incentive, and some incentive is evidently necessary. It should be our aim then to encourage an interest in all sports and games which...
...relations between journalism and politics are more closely related than any other two branches of human activity. Journalism tends to make politics and politics make government, which is a high enough object for any man to strive to improve. Politics and journalism go hand in hand, and the one reacts upon the other. A low condition of politics means a low condition of journalism and vice versa. If we are endeavoring to reach politics through journalism the educated man should as soon as possible eliminate the disturbing quality of personality. Personality should be subordinated to the ideal, and we should...
...secure the services of Mr. Gilbert Murray, M.A., Oxford '92, LL.D., Glasgow '00, and from 1889 to 1899 Professor of Greek at Glasgow, for a course of six lectures on Greek Traditional Poetry; a chapter in the History of Greek Poetry in relation to the progress of the Human Race. The lectures will be given in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum on the evenings of April 29, May 1, 3, 6, 8, and 10 at 8 o'clock, and will be open to the public. Announcement of the subjects of Mr. Murray's lectures will be made later...
...best definition of civilization, said Mr. Bryan, is the harmonious development of the human race physically, mentally and morally, and for this reason it was essential that every individual train himself in all of these qualities. No combination of all of these qualities is so well shown as in the character of Thomas Jefferson, the greatest constructive statesman in history, who, in comparison with Alexander Hamilton, shows the most striking cast of a conscientious politician who realized and had faith in the strength and wisdom of the people. This faith in our people and in our democratic form of government...
...increased, and as the tools were poor, it became dearer. In the time of Louis XVI, however, the land was at its highest period of cultivation, while the condition of the laborer had fallen to a very low state. The history of property shows the economical forces which make human combinations necessary; through its development labor organizations have been materially affected...