Word: humanation
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...came to know her better, I found a peculiar charm in her which I never saw in other women, whom contact with the social world makes selfish. Here was a woman who, during the twenty years of her life, had met with no more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers...
...Corporation. With regard to this, we cannot see that there is any appreciable difference between receiving money from students and receiving it from men who have just graduated, as in the case of the College Fund. Men can be found to grumble at anything; it is but human nature. A few of those who subscribed for plank walks very probably would have done the same, but we think that it is much better for them to do so for a short time, as they might if called upon to subscribe, than for them to grumble incessantly, as they will...
...weary human brain...
...proctor is a kind of human being that lives between Freshman and Sophomore, and prevents the latter from completely destroying the former. A proctor's Freshman has his room directly below him, and is under his especial care . . . and then you are sure of Holworthy...
...that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that no man ever "drank to excess, in spite of his dislike to liquor, because it was the 'proper caper,'" he shows a surprising lack of knowledge of human nature. It is natural for a man to do what the man whom he admires does. Human nature is much the same in Harvard College as it is in the world at large, and the only reason why the Harvard Gosling does not drink to excess is because Swellington does...