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...vitality of Schiller's reputation," he said, "is one of the noblest facts in German literature. Goethe overtops him in almost every field, and Heine surpasses him in lyric perfection, yet it is Schiller, and neither Goethe nor Heine, whom the German people have taken into their hearts, and whom foreigners have agreed to honor as the spokesman of many of the finest traits in the German nature...
...Imperial Majesty, and of the friendliness which determined his action. I also trust that they may aid the Germanic Museum in its efforts, which His Imperial Majesty has so munificently assisted, to make Harvard a centre for the study of all that is highest and noblest in Germanic civilization...
...prophet with the poet's noblest...
...Dean Briggs, if I remember rightly, recently gave to the New York graduates the assurance that the standard of the A. B. degree would not be lowered. But if scholarship is not to be cheapened, something else is going to suffer. The inestimable educative value--using educative in its noblest sense,--of a Senior year with four courses and plenty of time for those other occupations which bring maturity of mind and breadth of culture, will be exchanged for a year of hard, professional, specialized study in Law, Medical, or Graduate School, where the unfortunate three-year graduate...
...last reason for remaining ignorant of evil is that this ignorance is the only possible basis for honest whole-souled fellowship and friendship. The slightest introduction of evil into the relations of life make the best and noblest friendship impossible...