Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then in various parts of the field, signal towers built of light branches, which served as the framework for the human pyramids, sprang up. The fire lighting without matches then followed and in just 17 seconds there came to the representative of a Newton troop a reward in the form of a thin curl of smoke and the dry tinder burst into flame...
...celebration in focusing the attention of the alumni on the work of great law schools and their peculiar value at periods like the present in the history of popular government. The permanent maintenance of civil liberty depends upon the ultimate control through civil institutions of the belligerent tendencies in human nature, whether of a domestic or international character, and this requires the training and scattering through the community of the most highly trained minds that the country can produce. The training of such minds has been the great contribution, not only of the Harvard Law School, but of the other...
...knew the purpose of existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds...
...eagle's altitude, they could fly to more suitable places than Cuba or Canada. In neither of these two countries is great love fostered for poltroons. And Mexico, with all her sins, places no immoral value on the prime necessity in our scheme of existence of the preservation of human life...
...most acute horror of war, and the finest conscientious scruples about the value of human life should not prevent a man from undertaking work not in the nature of the grim work of the rifle and bayonet. There are many fine ways in which man, and perhaps God, (although about Him we cannot postulate), may be served without the pouring out of blood...