Word: finely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fidelities of friendship which men like Emerson and Thoreau longed after without ever quite experiencing. Lowell's cosmopolitan reputation, which was greatly enhanced in the last decade of his life, seemed to his old associates of the Saturday Club only a fit recognition of the learning, wit, and fine imagination which had been familiar to them from the first. To hold the old friends throughout his lifetime, and to win fresh ones of a new generation through his books, is perhaps the greatest of Lowell's personal felicities...
When we think of our poor grounding and of the good we might have had from a given study the phrase that comes to us is "If I had only known!" If we had only known what fine things lay ahead how much better would have been our beginning. And yet how were we to tell? How were we to know when we started our beginners' Latin or Greek, studying the dullest sort of composition, of the glories of classic thought and poetry. This purposeless choice and following of our elementary courses can account for more wasted time than...
...Paris, and Editor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", is to give a lecture in English on "The Part of France in the Revival of Ancient Greek Art" in Fogg Art Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture, held under the auspices of the Division of the Fine Arts and the Boston Society of the Archaelogical Institute of America, is open to the public...
...knowledge of the military game and would offer an opportunity to those who desired to become experts. A man with four years of military education would be invaluable to the Government in case of another war. There are at present and will be for the next few years, a fine body of retired officers in the University who could start this system going on a high standard of efficiency...
...main interest centres around the characters of Captain Bairns-father's "Three Muskrats": Bert, Alf, and Old Bill. Mr. Edmund Gurney, as Old Bill, seemed to have stepped right out of "Fragments from France." A fine old walrus he was, blowing his drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn...