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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shape of a diptych, representing a bishop in full pontifical robes in adoration before the Madonna and Child. This picture was painted by Rogier van der Weyden, a Flemish painter of the 15th century, and is a thoroughly characteristic and very beautiful example of the works of this early master. It will be placed in the Fogg Art Museum as soon as it can be properly and safely mounted...
...Dole is well known both as a writer and a theologian. He graduated from Harvard in 1868 and took the Master's degree in 1870. He then entered the Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1872. He was professor of Greek at the University of Vermont until 1874, where he accepted a call to a Portland church; from here he went to the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, which charge he still holds. In June he received from Bowdoin the honorary degree of D.D. His appointment as Ingersoll Lecturer was announced on June 3, 1906. Among...
...Malgre Lui" is one or Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding him at his work...
...Chapeau d'un Orloger" is a humorous play, filled with ridiculous situations in which the butler, the chief actor, places himself. He has broken a very old and valuable clock and, fearing the irritable temper of his master. has bribed the chambermaid to say nothing about it, and also to secure a clockmaker to fix it. The clockmaker comes and examines the clock, but on his departure leaves his hat. The butler hides the hat, but it is found by another servant and brought, to the master, to whom the butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides...
...Dole took his master's degree in 1870, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1872. He was then for one year professor of Greek in the University of Vermont. In 1874 he accepted a position as minister in Portland, Maine. Since 1876 he has been minister of the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Among Mr. Dole's writings are: "The Citizen and the Neighbor," "Jesus and the Men About Him," "The American Citizen," "The Golden Rule in Business," "Luxury and Sacrifice," "The Theology of Civilization," "The Problem of Duty," and "The Spirit of Democracy...