Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, that famous character of the French Revolution was not the bloodthirsty, fanatical flend he is usually pictured to be, but a nonentity who reached his position through circumstance and was merely the mouthpiece for a prevalent doctrine. The prospects if such a model is followed are appalling. Mankind may manage to struggle along without any paragons to inspire virtues, but without any villains to use as horrible examples its instructors would...
...dedicate ourselves to the service of mankind as members of the Engineering profession...
...RISES TO PARNASSUS-Henry Fairfield Osborn-Princeton University Press ($2.50). Ages and ages ago, but eons after primates became distinctly monkeys, apes and men, mankind began his fumbling rise to earthly supremacy. The start was probably on the plateaus of Central Asia and the first men were certainly runners. They hunted to live. Descendants of theirs who wandered into other plateaus of the continents continued the hunting life. Others traveled into forests and became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types...
Such is the claim of the "liberals" but as is a frequent fault with reformers, they fail to consider that while they are busy making plans for a better world, the majority of mankind must meantime carry on the everyday affairs of life. It is inevitable that they settle into a more or less permanent and conservative mold, on which it would be exceedingly difficult for liberal crusaders to make much impression. And if the liberally educated youth cannot retain his liberalism in hostile surroundings, it is as least as much the fault of his instruction as of the environment...
...Freshman Debating Club will meet this evening at 8 0'clock in the Smith Halls Common Room, to argue on the question: "Resolved," That Woodrow Wilson's policy to keep out of war as long as possible was for the good of mankind...