Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What Professor Lumholtz had to say of the natives themselves was, however, the most instructive part of the talk. He is the only European who has ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown...
...That brief phrase, 'The schools and college of the United States,' is a formal and familiar one; but what imagination can grasp the infinitude of human affections, powers and wills which it really comprises? Not the liveliest and most far-reaching...
...forget the outward things called schools and colleges and summon up human beings...
...influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...
...first American expedition was formed and it succeeded in unearthing some of the rarest of all the specimens of tablet-writing, and of the half-human half-beast figures of which there were found many in the excavations. At present a body of American gentlemen, of which Prof. Peters of the University of Pennsylvania is the head, is engaged in discoveries in Babylonia...