Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race and erected statues to his skill, his service and his memory...
...Mildred Everett, made in order to carry out a plan suggested by her father, Charles Carrol Everett, deeply respected and widely influential as scholar and teacher in Harvard University for more than thirty years. In advance of his generation, and through his wide survey of the spiritual life of mankind, Professor Everett recognized that religion has been man's supreme interest. He saw, too, that the degeneration of this interest has been man's deepest affliction. He deplored equally the isolation of reason from faith, and the isolation of faith from reason. He devoted a life of uncommon power...
There were two great aims in the life of John Harvard. First, there was the love of freedom--the source of progress, the inspiration of mankind. Secondly, there was education, its promotion, diffusion, improvement, and enlargement...
...September number of the Graduates' Magazine is the speech delivered last June before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa by Hon. James Bryce. In a discussion of the eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either...
...have presented the Harvard Union with this picture of Marshall Newell, of the Class of 1894. Although he died before he was twenty-seven years old, Newell had proved himself not only a great athlete and a loyal Harvard man, but also a lover of books, of nature, of mankind, and of the truth...