Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study of the noblest precedents of the past,- sources indeed upon which in the first place the work of the School at Paris is itself founded. To this end, in the school at Harvard the student is constantly surrounded by photographs and drawings of the best works of Greece and Rome and the Renaissance...
Through these means the noblest and finest animals in the world are allowed to be exterminated. Congress has even so far refused to protect the animals in the Yellowstone Park. The only means of effective preserves now used is by private game preservers and such organizations as the New York Zoological Society. For the future hope is to be expected from the rousing of the popular opinion through the press and through the natural history societies...
...scholastic preparation for the great work of the Christian ministry, was taken from our midst by death-an event which seemed untimely, inasmuch as he was called from the field while entering it full of hope, and equipped with a liberal education, a sympathetic appreciation of the highest and noblest, and an ambitious spirit to best serve his day and generation...
...Property worth L800,000.- (4) 50,000 weekly meetings.- (5) 28 weekly newspapers and 15 magazines with a total subscription of 51 millions: Lend a Hand, vol. XIV, p. 208; Booth App.- (b) Thousands of men and women have been rescued from lives of degradation to lives of noblest service in behalf of their fellowmen...
...work also the development of the whole man, growth in culture and the encouragement of the humanities, then surely historic associations, a noble lineage, ancient memories and an atmosphere enriched with generations of culture have their great influence. And it is from these often that the student gains his noblest aspirations. Let us look then unto the rock whence we are hewn...