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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which God has thought fit to endow him; but he can no more trim the natural power within him to a pattern than he can alter...
...been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...
...room, unless he has some serious grudge against his neighbors. There is no doubt that the best place to supply this need would be Holden Chapel, since it has no adjoining rooms, and is not used by any other department. If the Y. M. C. A. could find it convenient to transfer its reading room to some other place, and allow Holden Chapel to be devoted to the cause of oratory, it would be doing a great service to those who intend to try for the Boylston Prizes and for Commencement parts...
...such misunderstanding and even latent antagonism, between men who uphold the claims of the body and those who uphold the claims of the mind. There is no call for it: both lay emphasis on a different means, but both really have the same end in view, and would find, if they threw away their hostile feelings, that the different means were not incompatible, but that all are needed. So long as men insist on their own views and present inclinations, the University will tend to go from one extreme to the other. There is a great need for a willingness...