Word: felt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...merits of contemporaneous art he was warmly appreciative, but he felt, as all men of large vision must feel, that much of it is too limited in purpose, and too experimental in method, to rank as yet with the highest achievements of past times. Thus in University teaching he felt that it was more important to acquaint young men with what the fine arts have been than to engage their attention extensively on the various phases of modern art which, though manifesting much that is hopeful, are more or less transient in character. CHARLES H. MOORE...
...steadying influence of a mind free from provinciality, an acquaintance with the best the world elsewhere has known, a spirit averse to mechanical methods, a loyalty to high ideals, and a disposition ever to make the moral being of the students his prime care. While his colleagues often felt that what he urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection as truly as his learning did their respect. To him many a young instructor has turned in a literary or personal exigency and found in his disciplined judgment and sympathetic heart help...
Over the student body his influence has been of the same nature as that felt by the Faculty; for he is made all of a piece. His personal kindnesses have been innumerable and untraceable, and his following can probably be paralleled only by one other teacher of our time. The subject which he taught for many years was elected by everybody almost as a matter of course; and all regarded it, high students or low, as one of the signal events of the college years. Like Geology 4, Fine Arts 3 was a "soft course." Would there were more such...
...them, he stands for all that they hoped to acquire at Harvard--in a word, for Culture. When admitted to the hospitality of his home I have realized something of the feeling of the Harvard undergraduate with regard to Professor Norton's home and its influence. I have felt that I breathed there the true atmosphere of that university of the poets;--for while there have been notable poets at other universities, the Cambridge of America, like the Cambridge of England, has always attracted the poets, and men of poetic minds. Professor Norton has stood for the beautiful in literature...
Professor Kuehnemann was the last speaker. He had always felt it his duty, he said, to impress the power and personality of President Eliot and of the University on every one. It had been hard to decide to come over here for the second time and to leave Germany; but his sense of duty called him. He wished to spread the knowledge of what Germany had done in literature and what her great figure stood for among the young men of this country. To them, as the new generation, is his mission...