Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief motive relied upon to keep men up to date in their work. In spite of the fact that the present system may be adapted to the ideal attitude which students ought to hold toward their work, it is often little adapted to the actual situation. It is only human nature to do what appears to be disagreeable only when the call is imperative. The more thoroughly the system of conducting courses is adapted to the actualities of human nature and the less it is based on the theoretical "whatought-to-be," the better must be the results. We believe...
...methods of the modern suffragettes have been often condemned, yet these have been the only means of securing their rights left open to them. Although obliged at times to use forcible methods, it is a significant fact that no human being has ever been injured in their agitations except possibly the suffragettes themselves. In closing, Mrs. Pankhurst added that equal suffrage would in the end be of more benefit to men than to women and would mark a great advance in human progress...
...world's great minds. Plainly it is not Mrs. Pankhurst who has been injured but Harvard. Must our University assume towards this newer phase of the battle for political freedom the same blind, reactionary attitude to which it held--to its disgrace--throughout the struggle for the abolition of human slavery in America? OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD '93. The Evening Post, New York...
...Fogg Museum has recently received as a loan from the Boston Art Museum, a sixteenth century Flemish copy of Michael Angelo's Holy Family in the Uffizi; also a panel by an unknown master of the south German school, representing the weighing of a human soul by Saint Michael, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint George. Saint Michael holds the scales and pours holy water on the form of a dragon in the scales which represents the soul, thus making the balance go down on the side of purity. The devil, in the form of a dragon, vainly claws...
...editor of the Boston Medical Journal and in 1884 he gave a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute on "Mechanism of the Bone and Muscle." He had written much on medical subjects, and was the author of "Anatomy of the Head; the Intracranial Circulation," also numerous papers on human and vertebrate anatomy, which appeared in medical and scientific journals. He was given an LL.D. by Georgetown University...