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They entered the great Registan (Market Place) of which Lord Curzon has written: "It was originally and is still, even in its ruins, the noblest public square in the World."† The women, with faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...
...York Evening Post's composing (i.e. typesetting) room because that newspaper desired "only decent-looking men about." Said his sister: "He seemed to me the embodiment of romance and poesy, and now, as I think of him, with his pure unselfish nature, so early devoted to what was noblest and best, I can only compare him to the high-minded boy saint, the chaste seraphic Aloysius...
...while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange to see Harvard graduates who are willing not only to refuse such work their support but actually to impede it by higgling criticisms because it does not devote itself to ministering to their infantile fixations...
Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...
Undoubtedly this would be a good and noble use. Our authorities would show themselves wise and kind, if they allowed Memorial Hall to be used as a gymnasium. But we earnestly hope that they will carefully consider whether this is the best and noblest use that can be made of the Hall. Although being a dining hall, it is hardly suited for a gymnasium, still with minor or even essential changes, it might be made to serve many other purposes. Then, too, although Cambridge boys and girls undoubtedly deserve Harvard's generosity, there are all sorts and conditions...