Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Washington Gladden, D.D., gave the second of the William Belden Noble lectures in Phillips Brooks House last evening on "Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Artist." Michelangelo, he said, was a lover of beauty, a loyal friend of freedom and justice, and a true servant of the God of light and love...
Throughout all the intellectual strees of his time, Michelangelo never lost his faith in the central ideas of the Christian religion. He was greatly influenced by the powerful preaching of Savonarola, with whose desire for reformation of the church and the freedom of Florence he deeply sympathized...
...Michelangelo's work the sensuous beauty of the elder art gives place to an intensity of life of which the ancient sculptors had little conception. The art of Greece shows us human nature in untroubled freedom, the art of Michelangelo brings before us the poignant strivings of a later day when the soul obtained peace only through the mastery of evil. Life as he sees it is not hopeless, but sublime. Both his sculpture and his poems bear profound testimony to his belief in the realities of Christianity...
...idleness among the candidates for this degree that could not for a moment be tolerated in the more advanced departments of the University. Although the facts stated are undeniably true, it is plain that a literal adoption of the suggestions made by the article would tend to destroy that freedom of choice which had been the aim of the College for the last decade at least, and which can be lacked by strong arguments as well as by the testimony of results accomplished...
...year will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The front seats will be reserved for students and officers of the University until 4.55 o'clock. The music will be by the University Choir. The programme is as follows: "The King Shall Rejoice," Harris; "Freedom, Our Queen," Professor J. K. Paine; "He Maketh Peace in Thy Borders," Hall...