Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sculpture between 520 and 360 B. C.; how it came about that the fetters of conventional archaism were broken through and room given for the display of higher genius and greater skill. Chief among the causes that wrought this change was the introduction in the fourth century of the nobler material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings, whereby the metal...
...brow shall sit a nobler grace than...
...whose faculties were finding training here. Whether we are conscious of it or not, I say - for one of the assurances which comes to us most clearly at a time and festival like this, is that our history has been under diviner guidance, and has moved toward nobler ends than we have understood. The college has been in greater, holier, hands than she has known. Alas for the college, if these 250 years have meant for it no more than she has been able to see that they were meaning. In many ways it seems as if she had been...
...very extensive lapse of time to prove that the lessons of a college, however large, are not the lessons of life. The power of grind must resolve itself into pluck, facility to learn must become sagacity, and ambition for college honors must give place to a higher and nobler strife, to make college training a proper preparation for after life. But why need we offer the unprofitable advice of a younger brother? It is justly expected of us to say, "Your record is one of which you may be proud, and with you go our heartfelt wishes for success." This...
...Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young child in one of the cloisters of southern Wessex. He had shown great capacity for study, but his religious nature soon drove him to wider and nobler fields. He took up the cause of Rome in Friesland, but soon felt that he must go to Rome and there obtain the papal sanction for his work. In the Eternal City, he found his desire for spiritual work increased until his whole soul became fired with holy passion. From...