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...Holbein Portrait is painted in a roundel of oak and represents a young man, almost full face, dressed in a black coat and cap. In his left hand he holds a pair of gloves. The background is a greenish blue, and on it is inscribed: "Anno Domi 1535 Etatis Svae 28." Professor Paul Ganz, the well-know authority on Holbein, writing of this portrait says: "The Portrait of a Young Man" is a genuine, exquisite work of Hans Holbein the Younger. The drawing for this picture is in the Library of Windsor Caste. . .In my opinion this unknown...
...pleasures of society, who needs the spur of emulation. The University has no business to assume that some men are less selfish than others; nor is it its province to see how many men of one class it can educate more than those of another. Res angusta domi is not necessarily a cause of merit...