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...more explicit, called these units colleges; Harvard was content to call them Houses. Having begun the work of education along the lines that a diverse modern civilization made necessary, Mr. Lowell retired, trusting that the course system would gradually give way, and become, as the lecture system, the efficient handmaid of men working, under tutors, in a wide and coordinated field...
Then Mary bowed her fair head and answered: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word...
...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...
...effort, as all now know, is directed at literature. It is, say these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press is to be silenced by a threat...
Concerning Art: "Art has always been recognized as a handmaid of religion. Amid the restlessness, discontent and ugliness of much of our modern habits and of our artificial life, the elements of character which go with true and pure art are needed-the restfulness, serenity, strength and self-command revealed through nature and expressed in the finest characters...