Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production, entitled "The Wise Man" is under the direction of Charles Hicks, Occ. The lighting and the properties are being supervised by George Lowenstein '28 and Lincoln Robinson '30 respectively. The makeup work is in charge of Frederick Rahr...
...question is sometimes asked, why do men instinctively pay tribute, dedicate memorials, seek in a hundred different ways to perpetuate the memory of those who have lived inspiring lives or died inspiring deaths. What purpose does it serve, for instance, aside from common courtesy and gratitude, to erect the Lincoln Memorial Building or the fountains, obelisks and group figures in every town to the fallen soldiers in the world war. Certainly these material tributes are too often architectural monstrosities...
...answer to this question is to be found in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and a hundred other memorial speeches. It stands out so clearly that it is overlooked while exploring in obscure corners. At intervals men need rededication to the better; finer, more courageous elements in life and long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them...
...Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described so ably as "Four score and twenty years ago." They let me join. I joined...
Oxford man, scorner of the pedestrian scholarship of his time, indefatigable linguist, doctor of theology and doctor miraculorum (wonders) at Paris, friend of Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, and of Guy de Foulques (later Pope Clement IV), this Franciscan monk, Roger Bacon, had few intellectual peers in his century, whether or not he invented the contrivances dubiously attributed to him: a telescope, burning glasses, spectacles. His most popularly famed experiments were with gunpowder, of which he was the first important historian rather than the "inventor...