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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were in a more advantageous position to judge Dr. Eliot than was Professor Palmer, and few appreciated his personal qualities with greater symphathetic understanding. Professor Palmer saw President Eliot in certain critical situations in the latter's life from an intimate angle with the consequence that where the public often found coldness and hardness Professor Palmer found just the opposite qualities...
...even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible to a close observer in my official career. I should not like to have it said by the next generation, as has often been said by my contemporaries, that I was a man without ideals and without piety. That would not be good for Harvard. Your sympathetic discernment is therefore a solace and support. It has been hard to have people suppose--even some of my friends--that my interest in the religious...
...inspiring lives or died inspiring deaths. What purpose does it serve, for instance, aside from common courtesy and gratitude, to erect the Lincoln Memorial Building or the fountains, obelisks and group figures in every town to the fallen soldiers in the world war. Certainly these material tributes are too often architectural monstrosities...
...College too often conceals the emotions, makes you self conscious, critical." Miss Helen Hayes, star of "What Every, Woman Knows", the Barrie play now packing the Plymouth Theatre, was insistent...
...song on his lips, is not restrained by dictates of taste. Not restrained at all is his inspiration, not by question of taste at all, not by question of art at all, not by question of what-is-absurd-and-what-is-not-absurd at all. For absurd often is his inspiration, not dictated, no, nor emendated, not yet always ill-fated, for children are absurd nor yet always ill-fated; Vachel Lindsay is a child and not ill-fated. Walt Whitman was a mammoth child and not ill-fated...