Word: adornment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...love and admiration to all who knew him; while his books have brought to Harvard wide renown in his chosen field of Mediaeval English History both in this country and in Europe. Modest, unselfish and retiring, with the broad outlook and noble charity of judgment which supplement and adorn the highest attainment, he labored steadily onward, never courting prominence or notoriety, but at the same time deeply grateful for the many testimonies of admiration and respect from the world of scholars which poured in upon him in increasing numbers during the past ten years. His last illness, though prolonged...
...work on the palace, which was not quite completed for the performance yesterday, will be finished today. Most of the painted wood-carvings which adorn the metopes still remain to be put in place...
...what must be the hopes of Yale? To enrich, adorn, and make happier and more abundant the life of the nation and of every individual in it, to make the forces of nature contribute more and more to the welfare of man, to so purify and strengthen democracy as to establish it in all Christian countries, and to call the American people in ever clearer tones to that righteousness which alone can exalt a nation...