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When Johnson was shown a Scottish forest, he remarked that he would have called it a heath. As for Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal...
...their football songs, for all their fiinesse at the academic game, four years at Harvard from 1908 to 1918 were a serious business. No undergraduate could fail to be affected by the changes of a thoughtful, farsighted president; none could fail to realize that "the noblest institution in the land" had effected a change in his life. Clarence Randall, Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt, and Frederick Lewis Allen, Associate Editor of Harper's were all members of the class of 1912, along with William L. Laurence, science editor of the New York Times; Raymond S. Wilkins, an Overseer; and Harry...
...lecture on the morning after his nomination, Lowell responded to hearty applause with a call for closer cooperation between administration and students: "We must work together," he said, "in building up the noblest institution in the land." An era of change was begun at Harvard...
Many titled heads came from principalities and powers that no longer exist, such as Lippe-Biesterfeld. the stamp-sized German principality once ruled by the family of Prince Bernhard, Juliana's live-wire husband. Some of the noblest names were borne by hard-working royals such as Britain's globe-trotting Princess Alexandra and Dr. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II who once worked as a mechanic in a Detroit auto plant. Going Dutch with their Queen, Amsterdam's city fathers contributed $28,000 to the royal revels, while...
...does not) cite Plato, who in the 4th century B.C. told the overworked Athenians: "God alone is worthy of supreme seriousness, but man is made God's plaything, and that is the best part of him. Therefore every man and woman should live accordingly and play the noblest games...