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...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...
...human interests, the religious is one of the oldest and most influential. Historically it has been fruitful of both good and evil. It has inspired some of the worst crimes as well as some of the noblest enterprises of mankind. When aroused to activity it has been sometimes an uplifting and sometimes a degrading influence. Its power for good or evil is so great that it imperatively needs wise guidance. A learned minister today is one who is sufficiently familiar with the history of the religious interest to direct its activity into ways of present helpfulness. To this...
...life will have the noblest and which is vouchsafed to man and should be glorified rather than lamented...