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...first of the great masters of this time is Michael Angelo. He stands alone entirely distinct from all his contemporaries. His individuality was very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers...
...president of this University. Among the various clubs of Harvard graduates in the country, a movement is already on foot to ensure some appropriate recognition of such a long and successful term of office. In the whole history of Harvard, but one president has served for a longer term; none certainly has met with greater success...
...good enought to be worth all the efforts of a man's life, and here many make the great mistake, for certainly there are thousands who spend all their strength in its acquirement. Others make the object of life the attainment of social or political honors. Life is none of these; it does not consist of honor or gold, or of rank, but it is rather the development and perfecting of the character and the striving after an ideal manhood...
Throughout all our troubles and pleasures we must always remember that complete darkness never comes, that there is no time when there is not some suggestion of light. there are none to whom darkness never comes, just as there are none who have not their times of light, for God never leaves those who trust and follow him without some evidence of his presence...
...they think that if we cannot know all we can know nothing. But Paul says "now I know in part;" partial knowledge is not to be despised. Our light now is reflected light, but while it comes through a mirror and is imprefect, still what is reflected is none the less true light. The first thing we must learn about God is that we cannot know him perfectly. We must realize that reflected rays are often more useful than the direct. Where the direct light would dazzle or confuse, we may often learn much from the reflection. Thus an astronomer...