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...small way" by Sarah Porter, sister of P'resident Noah Porter of Yale University (1871-1886). "She gave to hundreds of the best-born women of the land that poise and stability of character, that combination of learning and good manners, which is a mark of the noblest American womanhood." Farmington, whose course is indefi- nite in length and character, has a reputation for distinction of dress and deportment. It caters to "the finer families." Its product is rather the perfect lady than the trained mind. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Porter Keep are in charge...
...cardinal purple has been worn by many of the noblest men who ever lived and by some of the greatest rascals. Richelieu was the Cardinal-Duke, as was Cesare Borgia; de Rohan was the Cardinal-politician ;Reginald Pole, the Cardinal -man -without -a-country; Wolsey and Mazarin, the Cardinal-statesmen ; Newman, the Cardinal-poet ; and "in the person of James Gibbons the full flower of spiritual princeliness came to its blossom...
...very vanguard of the 20th Century in most respects, Germany has straggled back into the 17th Century politically. The curse of mediaeval government has hung over her noblest achievements. At a great crisis of their history the German people are deprived of that power over their own political institutions without which the English speaking peoples have justly come to regard life itself as intolerable...
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...