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Bremen, the other sister, received her champagne baptism at Bremen. It is no discourtesy to distinguished Ambassador Schurman to say that the Bremen's launching oration was pronounced by a mightier Man. A roar of welcome went up from 50,000 throats as He arrived, striding with ponderous tread, nodding gravely at the plaudits, a man too old and too great to receive aught but universal homage...
...city, Jesus kept to the hills, pondering the wickedness of priests, and the gullibility of the people. But suddenly he heard "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"-John decrying all that Jesus himself abhorred. Wakened from his listless dreaming, by John's prediction that "one mightier than I cometh," he started out among humble villagers, bringing them a message of love far simpler to understand than the hair-splitting taboos of their priests. His magnetism soon drew twelve men as disciples, and together they wandered from village to village, humbly enjoying the success of the master...
...exhausted by interminable footless fighting, harried by powerful enemies and treacherous vassals, resolves to sacrifice his questionable independence for peace and pleasure in the palace of some mightier overlord. He chooses Ung Khan as his most likely protector, agrees to surrender two thirds of his revenue, and to live at the court of Caracorom with 2,000 fighting men ready for emergencies. In return he is guaranteed his safety, and the integrity of his kingdom...
Harvard may well extend its felicitations for the man who forty years ago, as a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, spoke out his allegiance to the old law with these words: "When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind...
...opera houses of Europe, Feuersnot is an old story. Strauss finished it in 1901 (it antedates Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss...