Word: noblest
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Have we overdrawn our picture? Perhaps we have-they say familiarity breeds contempt. At any rate, we are glad to be in Virginia. We are glad to be in the home of the noblest, finest and most human set of people we have ever set eyes upon...
Many have written to the effect that man is the noblest work of God; but none have surpassed the expression of Mr. George Santayana, in one of his essays...
...their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam Smith? Man has always expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, G. '03, professor of English at the University, will deliver the first of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Radcliffe endowment fund in Sanders Theatre at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Professor Lowe's subject will be, "The Noblest Monument of English Prose". Today's lecture is the first of a course of eight to be given on consecutive Monday afternoons by University professors and associate professors now offering courses at Radcliffe College. The other lecturers are Professor G. H. Parker '87, Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Professor...
February 19.-- John Livingston Lowes '03, Professor of English, "The Noblest Monument of English Prose...