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John Kennedy was one of Harvard's noblest sons. The World will long remember him as one of the greatest Americans of our time. We need not attempt to set forth the accomplishments, or the traits of character and courage in war and peace, that makes this so. Our contemporaries are well aware of them, and our descendants and successors will be taught them in the classrooms of America. Just as it was not until after his death that we became fully aware of the place that the held in the hearts of men of all civilized nations and races...
...warmth in this century. Only the mother, the wife, can supply it for the home. To be a housewife is not easy. Ours is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalog. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed...
...Sergius Orata the noblest and least appreciated Roman of them all? While more militant Romans were battling the Cimbri along the Rhine toward the end of the 2nd century B.C. and the poet Lucilius was pouring out his satires, Sergius Orata was pouring his considerable fortune into his single passion-the cultivation of the oyster. The ups and downs of that bivalvular mollusk ever since are the subject of Novelist Clark's book-a witty blend of fact, fable and fine poetic nonsense...
Some of the noblest bones of France lie in the sod of Père-Lachaise, the most stately cemetery in Paris. It was there, and not in a humble graveyard, that French Communists last week buried Maurice Thorez, for three decades their leader...
...that simple. Nor was it the noblest hour of the U.S. presidency...