Word: humanation
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...course so that it shall be complete, is not a particularly original idea, yet it is a truth that can never well be lost sight of. The courses that a college is able to offer, whether in languages, science, philosophy or art, do not satisfy every side of human nature and human intellect. At least one side is left unsatisfied, and not unlikely is better, so left. The responsibility of training themselves in speech and argument, of making themselves informed on the current topics of the day, and of making themselves able intelligently to discuss those topics...
...history we find few prominent characters; for the vast majority of men the law of life is oblivion. We belong to the unknown, the unrecorded masses and one epitaph would do for all. This is one great law of man. A second is that the human race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again...
...Gregory VII, and Luther shook the world. Secondly, history teaches us that the work of the world's heroes is never permanent in its results. The oil in a lamp, if it is always to burn, must often be replenished. If a work pauses, degradation ensues. Christianity as a human philosophy is lacking. Only as a divine message, as a living energy, can it be complete and truly successful. Thirdly, history teaches that the failures of the world's heroes are not absolute. Each hero, each saint of the world but led the way for a successor...
After leaving this study of human nature, we visited the New Law School, Memorial Hall, the beautiful dining place of the students, where, alas, it is said, the cookery is much inferior to the surroundings, and lastly the Agassiz Museum, where we saw a most interesting accumulation of zoological and ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast...
...affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this...