Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this country and abroad in proportion as the scientific method is superseding the old methods based on chronological, on narrative and be it said on pedantic ideas of these branches. The proper study for mankind is man, and that one of the trinity (so to say) of the humanitarian studies-literature, philosophy and political science-which has to do most broadly with man's concerns-with his concerns as a social being, has been neglected the longest so far as actual academic institutions go. The watchword, which best represents the spirit of the new movement which...
...methods by which pain in their experiments was reduced to the minimum was set forth, also the gains made to medical science. Our knowledge of the circulation of the blood and many other of the foundation stones of medical learning are due to the practice of vivisection. It is humanitarian, for by the sacrifice of the lower animals almost without pain the greatest benefits for the human race are obtained...
...hoped that this body of resident graduates will be very large or exercise a marked influence upon the spirit of the college until the resources of the university both physical and intellectual are largely increased,-until Harvard can offer instruction in purely liberal and humanitarian studies equal to the best obtainable in Europe; until she can rival Oxford or Beriin or Paris...