Word: humanized
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...transportation ever known to mankind. No bird that flies can soar so high nor fly so fast. From the aviator the scientist has learned about the temperature above, about the gale that blows eastward at terrific speed seven or eight miles above the sea, about the pressure to human heart and tissues which high altitudes bring. From the aviator the world has learned that armies on land and navies at sea have met their master. The next great conflict between nations will be decided by their superiority...
...duty, then, of the college and the teacher is clear. The one must consider itself among the foremost institutions of a genuine democracy--never of any class--and, as such, must radiate common sense and illuminate the truth of human relationships as formulated in our governmental programs. The other must consider himself a medium of knowledge to his students--never a propagandist--and, as such, much present all significant conceptions to his classes. In this way, and in this way only, can they do their part,--and a particularly important part it is, in building a safe and sane democracy...
...knows punctuation but he can never have heard of good manners or of common decency, although he is careful to put an exclamation point alongside every sentence in which there is any hint that human beings are not ordinarily produced by parthogenesis...
...every industry we are confronted with chaos and ignorance at the vital points that affect human relations. The problems is one of social engineering. The most harrassing of all industrial evils for example is the irregularity of employment. But we must not view it as a visitation of God but as a challenge to science. The questions of hours, again, is not a question to be decided by haranguing but by scientific treatment. But as President Eliot recently observed, on this vital question we have absolutely no scientific data...
...known to history. Those who want a progressive in the White House will find in him an instinctively democratic progressive. Those who want administrative ability will find in him administrative ability of the highest order which has proved itself on three continents. Those who want an unyielding champion of human rights and a responsible government under law will find in him a candidate about whom they need have no misgivings...