Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...traditionally established and so many times evidenced is the odd trait of human nature which leads men to neglect wonders near at hand while they go travelling over the face of the world to view, wonders elsewhere, that there is no need to exclaim very loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known...
...with equally little doubt it may be said that many of them, at their reunion visits, have spent less time and effort in a serious endeavor to learn the fact of the institution's condition and service than have many alumni who come from a distance. It is human nature. So Harvard will bring them together in Cambridge tomorrow for a real sight-seeing tour. There is evident merit in the plan, both for Harvard's sake in general, and the endowment fund in particular. All success to it! --Boston Transcript...
What at college, will take the place of alcoholic liquors as a promoter of contacts, a revealer of sympathetic tastes, a humanizer of stiff and frigid young minds? Why has drink played the important part that it has in college fiction, unless it is that the writers of college fiction have recognized its influence in shaping human relations at college...
...years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings in each generation, it is the clear duty of the state to step in and protect society from a part of itself, if necessary by compulsion. Beyond all doubt this clear duty may be performed satisfactorily by the state only by the enforcement of a strict prohibition of intoxicating beverages...