Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...variety and excellence, is to be found in the choice of lectures offered this morning. The best lecture on today's list, judging from the titles, is Professor Howard's talk on Goethe on Shakespeare", to be given in Widener B in German 7. Goethe is considered the greatest of German poets, while Shakespeare's own position in English literature is hardly a mean one. But little stretching of the imagination is necessary to call these poets the two highest in world literature. To hear what the one has to say of the other could hardly be uninteresting...
...twelve, also in the Fogg Museum and also in Italian Art is a lecture by Professor Post given in Fine Arts 9a on Michael Angelo. The versatlle artist one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance, lived an interesting life in an interesting period. Any one of a number of works would have been sufficient to keep his name alive--the Sistine Chapel, the Dome of St. Peter's, the Medical Chapel...
...medical work and the great limitation of extra time forbids any participation in outside activity. As a matter of fact if the time were available, the upperclassmen would undoubtedly devote much of it in knowing and learning to serve better his own particular patients. Medical students have their greatest opportunity for social service in their everyday contacts with suffering humanity in the hospitals of this vicinity. They have no need of seeking out social service; it is right here at their feet--if they have half a heart they can not turn away...
...association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...close of the annual Phillips Brooks House drive for clothing brings with it a perfusion of figures showing what articles of apparel are most willingly cast off by college students. Ties, were contributed in greatest number and some 300 odd will be sent to the Near East for the Armenians...