Word: bryce
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...long time editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or some similar subject. President Eliot is the second incumbent of the lectureship. The first was the Right Honorable James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, who, in the fall of 1904, delivered a series of five lectures on "The Study of Popular Government." The lectures this year will probably be given...
...December number of the Graduates' Magazine is graced with a garland of appreciation contributed by eminent writers in honor of Professor Norton's eightieth birthday. A sonnet by Edith Wharton heads the list, and there follow letters from Ambassador Bryce, President Eliot, Horace Howard Furness, R. W. Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, W. D. Howells, G. H. Palmer, Bliss Perry, Goldwin Smith, and Andrew D. White. President Eliot traces the development of Mr. Norton's courses at Harvard-a most interesting history to follow, especially for those of us to whom Fine Arts 3 and Fine Arts 4 seemed as ancient...
...most important speakers at the meetings of the convention will be Hon. James Bryce h.'07, Hon. W. J. Bryan, Dr. W. T. Grenfell, Rev. Charles C. Hall h.'97, Bishop William F. McDowell, Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D.D., '72, and Dr. G. H. Parkhurst...
...Bryce, "American Commonwealth," Vols...
...leading article in the September number of the Graduates' Magazine is the speech delivered last June before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa by Hon. James Bryce. In a discussion of the eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly...