Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those conferred by the college. It would be no longer true that the most successful men in after life are not those who have been most successful during their college career. To discourage a spirit of ungenerous rivalry and to curb the impatience of a morbid ambition, is the noblest work of the higher education. This work Harvard not only does not advance, but even retards...
...eclipse of two centuries, coming out of the cloud, and now, as I hope, the Christian armies are moving to the Bosphorus to restore, as I trust, the cross to the citadel of Sophia. I see a magnificent highway on which humanity is marching to her high and noblest destiny; and you, young men, are the persons that I call upon, to let us live with you. act with you, and encourage you, cheer you on, in order that you may accomplish for your country a name...
...have heard in some great symphony the many-voiced orchestra breaking forth with-full exultant strength to carry in the noblest harmony the lofty song; and anon. while the multitudinous air was still pulsing with rich vibrations, you have heard a rare, sweet strain floating from a single instrument, and, voicing itself among the lessening chords, like the notes of an AEolian harp above the diapason of the sea-waves, filling the air with tremulous beauty, and breathing into the soul of the listener the tearful happiness of perfect pleasure...
...noblest hand that ever toiled...
...noblest of her race...