Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wide range of study and research afforded by its advanced elective system. Here almost any subject, with its various modifications and departments, can be taken up, and under professors who have made life-long studies of their respective and special branches, pursued to the very limits of human knowledge. There are courses so admirably arranged and instructed that one, after spending the ordinary college course of four years in the pursuit of a special line of knowledge, finally appreciates his own incapacity, in the contemplation of the immensity and scope of his subject, and is forced to admit to himself...
...wishes to become clergyman, lawyer or doctor, a regular course of two or three years' study is required, and after that a season of weary probation, waiting for hearers, clients and patients, in which he has to learn that new science - how to influence and deal with human nature. Every man, especially every young man, thinks he can edit a newspaper and manage a farm; but let the first-honor man of boasted 'fine literary abilities' go into a newspaper office in search of a position and see what welcome he will meet. He will find that an education...
...where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three men, and this board having the power of perpetuating itself! Such an organization illustrates what has been called the natural papacy of the human mind. - [Elisha Mulford...
...tables, climbs the curtains, fastens himself to the chandelier, knocks down the book-case, and all this time is trying to play an accompaniment on a flute. You must see that he can't do both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing...
...experience in the classic Shades of Learning, forces me to challenge the educated world to prove any Heaven without life, reason, logic, order, harmony, genuine faith, belief in harmony with the organic and natural laws which govern, regulate and harmonize mankind in the present tense, heaven possessed in the human mind. The value of all objects and subjects depend on the harmony of saving properties of the Deity for powers and their value is in their power. If the Faculty will give me some incouragement to write for the college papers, or a chance to speak in the transit...