Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheaper electric current than was previously possible, thereby introducing electricity to many household and commercial uses. . . . "The unlimited credit given by the public to Insull has brought irreparable calamities and has created many victims, but Insull was in reality a hero fighting against the Depression and a benefactor of mankind." While Greek cheers and hand-clapping by Insull sympathizers rocked the court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful...
...rashly venture to choose the student as the prime cause of Higher Education's failure in America; if he is, the college can do nothing to remedy matters but attempt to improve him; improving what it offers him is futile. President Eliot, moved by a mistaken faith in mankind, tried to give his students opportunity to round out their knowledge. President Lowell attempted to force them to acquire a little Kultur. The disease seems to have been too severe for such homeopathic doses. It is now clear that to improve the product of the curriculum there must be improvement...
...extremely recent appearance. The same fact explains the ready loss-of-binocularity (cross-eyes) in many persons as the result of optical errors (eye-strain). ... I should add that the eye-grounds of all monkeys and apes are almost exactly the same as those of the black race of mankind...
...forget that the duty of this great institution is, not to follow, but to lead the way in freeing mankind from the shackles of superstition and stupidity. In these days of stress, when the world is struggling in a storm that threatens to destroy it, the sons of Fair Harvard charge you to remember, that if our civilization is to survive, one of the bulwarks of its salvation will be our Alma Mater, if by wise guidance she stands a firm oasis for straight thinking, courage, and high ideals. G. R. Agassiz...
...greater authenticity in that it contains little that is incredible and nothing that is, to us, inconceivable. In short, the work is a serious attempt, unmarred by riotous imaginings, to show, in rough outline, the endings of our present paths and the new and better ways which mankind may tread, provided only that mankind has the intelligence, the will, and the courage. As a book showing a possible transition from this immediate world to a conceivable Utopia, the work is no mean effort...