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...pleasantness anecdote and the newest which Mr. Wister has set before his readers is that of the visit of Jeremiah Smith to Mount Vernon and the kindly hospitality with which Washington received him, and, when the time for retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this...
...sketch of Jeremiah Curtin, linguist and ethnologist, best known to the public as the translator of "Quo Vadis"; a brief article by Rev. E. E. Hale '39, consisting mainly of personal reminiscenses of Longfellow as a professor at Harvard; a discussion of the future of music at Harvard by E. B. Hill '94, and a review of two notable books by Harvard men. Professor Bliss Perry's "Walt Whitman" and the volume of Dean Shaler's posthumous poems entitled. "From Old Fields"--complete the list of special articles. As usual, about half the number is devoted to the various departments...
...print collections have been considerably augmented. To the Gray Collection have been added, by purchase with the income of the Gray Fund, Calvary, a woodcut by Durer; Prophet Jeremiah, a copper-plate engraving of the Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles...
...text was the sixteenth verse of the sixth chapter of Jeremiah: "Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your should." These words were spoken in a time when the kingdom of Judah, threatened with invasion from Babylon, was torn within itself by adverse theories, by doubt, by hesitation, by the impulse at one moment to follow any leader and at the next the cynical distrust of all. then the prophet came to the nation, halting...
Heredity furnishes a man with his equipment; environment, with his company; but the man himself has choice, and can use his equipment as he will and leave his company if he desires. At the times of choice he needs what Jeremiah urged on Judah--deliberation. Not every way of life that is suggested to men is true; not every way that is novel and interesting is safe to follow. Originality is not a mark of truth, but rather indeed are those ways of conduct most likely to be true which are not devised ready made by the brain...