Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Theobald Smith, discoverer of the cause of Texas Fever, who taught men to seek in insects the source of human plagues; he stands among the great benefactors of mankind...
...works, in his life, Professor James assumed the facts of life as real and from this he wove a bond of sympathy with all mankind so strong and comprehensive that it placed him among the foremost philosophers of his time...
...celebration of the first vote that a citizen casts. This first act of citizenship should inspire us with a civic pride, should make us feel with St. Paul of Tarsus, that we are "citizens of no mean city." The power of suffrage is not a right of all mankind; it is a privilege gained for us by eight generations of men who sacrificed and toiled for just and equal laws that the citizen might have freedom to develop his powers, that our government might be a true democracy. We, their descendants and heirs, ought to feel responsibility for the suffrage...
President Lowell, the speaker of the evening, pointed out that all colleges were but a means to an end; namely, the uplift of the nation and of mankind. Friendship among them is growing as they realize the unity of their task. The best university is that which strives to correct its faults and this the public will in the end appreciate...