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After these definitions the speaker considered the motives which lead to a study of the Bible. These motives were explained as the scientific, the polemical, the literary, the homiletical, and the devotional. The last-named was declared to be the highest and noblest use of the Bible, since it results in quickening the best impulses of the student. The need of the hour is not so much instruction as inspiration...
...again to something above our normal spirit and have saved us from a disaster which would have had its effect on the good name of the University. Every man on the field yesterday must have felt that the game which Harvard put up against Pennsylvania was one of the noblest, manliest, and pluckiest things ever seen on a football field. Only one objectionable thing happened and the man at fault amply atoned for his guilt by an apology. Pennsylvania, too, is deserving of the highest praise. Her work was perfectly straightforward football and her whole attitude was honorable and sportsmanlike...
...such graduates as Dr. Brooks and Dr. Peabody that we find embodied the noblest examples of Harvard men. If it were possible to point to any two persons as types of the best and greatest which Harvard can claim as her own. we could choose none more appropriately than the two who have been taken from us so recently. The college has already mourned the loss of Dr. Brooks and is still mourning him. The sad news of yesterday but adds fresh cause for grief. We who are now in college can hardly appreciate what Dr. Peabody has been...
...strange, said Professor Kittredge, that Tennyson has given to Gawain such a frivolous and even tricky character. It is certainly annoying to anyone who knows the old romance to see the noblest knight of the Round Table thus insulted. Tennyson could have been acquainted only with Malory's later prose version of the story, for his characterization of Gawain is identical with Malory's. But Malory's tale is entirely unlike the original romance. In all the early stories of Gawain, he is not the man that Malory and Tennyson have pictured him. He is an ideal knight, a champion...
Concerning the work of the soloist, little is to be said. When art reaches such a height as that which Mr. D'Albert has attained, the most spontaneous and consequently the noblest thing which it calls forth is silence. During the evening he rendered a Concerto by Chopin, a Barcarolle by Rubinstein, and a valse, "Man Lebt nur Einmal," Strauss Tausig...