Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...human side of the war comes back to us vividly with the Harvard Surgical Unit. Two years before America had decided to send soldiers to Europe this little band of humanitarians went out. Now they come back with an astounding record of service, more than 150,000 casualties handled in their hospital alone...
...immense pleasure, that has been recognized by many of the leading men in College, to work with and develop these live American youths who are soon to be our governing citizens. Not only do the boys themselves derive immense benefit, but the undergraduate receives an insight into human nature that would otherwise be hard to obtain...
Governor Coolidge is perhaps gifted with far greater foresight than his opponents will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...wore the mark of it with unconcern; not that he was the noblest friend of honesty and common sense and the ruthless foe of cant, unfairness, untruth and un-Americanism; not that he took always the most dangerous part for himself; not that he was a man of splendid human qualities; not for anything that can be set down in words, but for something to which his deeds and attributes and heroism all pertained--for himself we loved...
...terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which are the engrossing problems of the present; it is, finally, the vision which sees beyond the pleasant conventions and pretentious optimism of the present and breaks...