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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...chief seat of learning, both in art and literature, in the fifteenth century was Florence. In Botticelli one of the first of the Florentian school, we find all three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there...
...Leavitt's today from 1.30 to 3.30. This is the last chance that can be given, as tickets must go back tomorrow morning. There has been such a rush for tickets at all the performances that, if Harvard men intend to go to any play, they will probably not find much better seats remaining than those offered for the Harvard Night...
...that a thing most necessary and helpful is the doing of good to others. No character can be noble or strong that is wrapped up in itself, for a selfish and self-centered man is the meanest and most hopeless of all creatures. But every one can find some way of doing good in his daily work. It is not necessary that everybody should be a founder or even a helper of great charitable institutions, but to do good each man has only to look about him to find opportunities every hour to help those who are around...
...shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...
Class feeling is gradually weakening here at Harvard. It is a result to which many causes are contributory. The classes have grown so large that acquaintance between all the members is impossible; probably no man knows, even by sight, all the men in his class, and most men would find it difficult to connect faces with half the names by which, according to the catalogue, their classmates are called. Then, too, the policy of the University now gives to each student full scope in developing his special abilities or tastes. A lively and initiatory interest in their work has been...