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Dates: during 1890-1899
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more imbued with the spirit of antiquity than Swinburne with all his Greek. And why? Because he read, not to become Greek, but drawn by a passion for the same ideal beauty that made the Greeks themselves Greek. The advice of Cato, cum bonis ambula, holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of Literature. | 6/23/1894 | See Source »

...that she gives more than one great speaker or singer to one race. There is a New England proverb which says of a fastidious person-"the best is not good enough for him," and this kind of fastidiousness I think one may and should exercise in regard to books. Cum bonis ambula, said Cato speaking of men, and one may say of books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragments from the Lectures of Professor Lowell. | 3/30/1894 | See Source »

...without hopes that Mr. Everett-cum tot sustineat et tanta negotia-may in his generosity of soul consent to give a second lecture on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/9/1894 | See Source »

...college, Giddings was known as a remarkably bright man and received a "magna cum" at commencement. He graduated from the Law School in '90, and received an A. M. in addition to his law degree. Since then he had been associated with R. W. Boyden '85, in a law office in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles R. Giddings '87. | 10/3/1893 | See Source »

...suddenly of heart disease on Dec. 26, in Egypt. He was born in Paris, February 19, 1867. but resided for most of his life in Henderson, Kentucky. He was prepared for college at the Berkeley School New York and entered Harvard in the class of 1889. He graduated magna cum laude and took honors in Physics and Chemistry. While in college he was secretary of the Boylston Chemical Club. At the time of his death he was taking a trip around the world, intending afterward to enter some profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary. | 1/7/1893 | See Source »

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