Word: humanation
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...strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument...
...request of the Boston local council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Dr. Clarence J. Blake will deliver an address, open to men only, on "The Use and Abuse of the Human Body," on Thursday, January 21, 1897, at 8 p. m., in Trinity Chapel, Trinity Church, Boston...
Many tribes of Indians solved the difficulty of invention by simply thinking of the Great Spirit. In this way they thought they received directly from him inspirations to discover things. Among the Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...
...because of their love of exercise? How many men come to college because they love to study? Is it not proper that men should be led to take exercise and to pursue a college course because of their love of athletic glory and their desire for worldly success? While human nature remains as it is we will require stronger motives than mere accomplishment to induce us to put forth our best efforts...
...little or no avail? Why is it necessary to use up the team in practice and by contests with unimportant teams just before the great games of the year? Of course I realize that thorough and systematic hard practice is necessary, but there is a limit to human endurance, and some discretion should be used, that the men shall be serviceable when the most important games occur. To win over Princeton, Pennsylvania or Yale is the great aim of the year and of more importance than to win over the many teams brought against Harvard week after week...