Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Talking", said Holmes, "is one of the fine arts--the noblest, the most important, and the most difficult"; and those who have read his Breakfast Table chats will agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order...
...character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want...
...periods was scorned and considered barbarous. In the 19th and to a still greater extent in the 20th century the enormous artistic value and signficance of this early work is understood more and more. The Fogg Museum has recently acquired some examples of Romanesque art which are among the noblest in America. These capitals were removed from their original places in the 12th century church by an architect in the 18th century who failed to perceive their beauty, and replaced them by work suited to the taste of his own time which the modern world agrees is far inferior. These...
...name with the award, the public service of a living American. Here enters inevitably, the element of personal and political feeling. Woodrow Wilson, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, possessed the faculty of inspiring intense admiration and intense hatred. Many of his friends believe him to be the noblest figure in our political life since Lincoln. What his enemies believe is too familiar to be repeated. Argument is useless until the historians have weighed the facts. We are still too close to the events and personalities of the world war, and all contemporary verdicts upon statesmen are notoriously fallible...
...reason the speaker advised that whatever was undertaken be done as well as possible. From this habit comes that force of character which enables a man to mould his own destiny. In concluding President Lowell said: "The object of the University is a preparation for the strongest, best, and noblest destiny that any man can achieve in these United States...