Word: humanly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Sever 11 was exceedingly well filled last night to listen to the fifth of the interesting series of lectures on the human system. The doctor took up the subject as announced, and held the attention of his audience very satisfactorily to the end. Excuse must be made for the action of a few men, who rather rudely left before the lecture was over, on the ground of the examinations...
This habit of defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
...chairs and desks we have in University, and these represent the highest point our faculty has got in the evolution from the primitive seats of our "arboreal ancestors." They are, for the most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time...
Beyond doubt it will be a long time before a few hundred or a thousand human beings will be able to come together for any such high aim as searching after knowledge, without having all the unpleasant elements of a lower life thrust upon them. In these days to study is not only to study, but to grow unpleasantly wise in the ways of the world. The Harvard college yard was not laid out for the sportive Cambridge youth; the college itself was not founded that merchants and dealers might make fortunes; and above all, the college buildings were...
...arrogant; for you are as likely as he to err. A little more kindly toleration from both is desirable. The optimist should recognize that, after all, the pessimist may be right; the pessimist should have the courtesy to acknowledge that an optimist is not necessarily a fool; for all human beings - including pessimists - are likely to make mistakes...