Word: alle
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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As for the verse, there are two poems of merit. E.E. Hunt, in his modern rendering of "Sir Orfeo," shows genuine literary conscience in sticking to the spirit of the original and in avoiding plenty of chances to decorate the phrasing. "A Shell Found Inland" proved a truly poetic find...
In introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a...
"In the first place, to clear the way, education as a profession is essentially an art. One may have made a profound study of the science of education and yet have had no experience whatever in practical work. We all understand that some of the very best work that has...
"I venture to say that most college men picture their life work in the midst of stirring scenes, striving with might and main among men. There, out in the world where men do things the very vastness of it all stirs the spirits of the young.
"Now by contrast, how small seems the world of the teacher! Instead of dealing with men, instead of coming into close connection with busy affairs, the teacher seems to be spending his time with books, or with men who have not yet arrived at the stage of doing things. But...