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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whether they have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts...
...spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded...
...said that modern crities are altogether too apt to overlook the difficulties which the early painters had to encounter when they first started the Renaissance movement. People find fault with their pictures because they differ from modern paintings, but they do these old masters injustice to compare them with modern artists. Even if they are not understood now-a-days the Italians were skilful painters for the times in which they lived; in fact, one of the chief causes for this lack of appreciation is that the old masters worked under the inspiration of religion, while nature was a comparatively...
...legitimate object of the time and money spent at the university is to fit students better to take their part in the activities of the world. Now universities, being separated to a great extent from the world, are always in danger of not accurately adapting students for activity. In old days, the university product was too often an overloaded and pedantic mind fed by a sickly body. The reaction came: the public declared that this was all wrong, that without health, knowledge was of little account. The needs of the body were made prominent, the student turned athlete...
...rooms of the tailoring department have been enlarged by making use of an extra apartment which connects with the old quarters...