Word: manned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy in a peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light of his knowledge of the world; but this is poorly suggestive of the pervasive influence of his constant precept and example, which only those whose lives it shaped could duly witness...
...Norton taught at Harvard from 1875 to 1898. He began under conditions which for a man less powerful would have been strongly adverse. He was already past middle life, in slender health, without experience in teaching, or indeed in routine work of any kind. His life had been that of a gentleman of leisure, spent in reading, travel, correspondence, and only occasionally writing for publication. With little technical training he undertook to teach a subject novel to the University, in which as yet there was no department; a subject, too, regarded with suspicion by influential sections of the community. Under...
...with dilettanteism, and then justly laughed at, humanism when solidly grounded begets a kind of awe. This Mr. Norton experienced. He was a welcome member of a company of scholars who almost from chlidhood had been so charged with responsibility for single subjects that the relations of these to man's interests as a whole had been often overlooked. A representative of that wholeness Mr. Norton became. To the anxious debates of the Faculty, through which the modern Harvard has been gradually evolved, he brought the steadying influence of a mind free from provinciality, an acquaintance with the best...
...soil. Besides the nutrition that is "timely," a little of that on which our forefathers fed keeps up the continuity of the stock. The methods of Mr. Norton were superbly out of date in our specialistic time. He saw in the Fine Arts the embodiment of man's deepest and most durable ideals; and with almost a religious fervor he brought these to bear on every aspect of the petty and careless life around him. He has been a preacher of reverence to a headlong age. And if sometimes a despairing note has been heard in his voice...
Another admirable thing about him was his cordial hospitality to students at his house, and his sympathy with them when they were in academic trouble. When you went to him, you felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties...