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Professor Muensterberg spoke for the German students and teachers of Boston in expressing their regard for Dr. Muck and their regrets at his departure. Philosophy and art both appeal to limited classes of people; music alone makes the universal appeal. New England has always been a Puritan district, into which the Germans are now introducing the aestheticism of their own scholarship. Professor Spalding spoke on the relations which have existed for several years between the University and the Orchestra. Harvard is endeavoring to produce a type of musician broadly educated as well as technically qualified, and to avoid giving...
...Rogers sees in the eyes of John Harvard, as they look out upon the Delta, a vision of the College which bears his name, and interprets for us the thoughts of the Founder with respect both to the past and to the future. He well brings out the Puritan loyalty to England at the very moment of the Separatists' revolt against the worldliness of the Established Church; but he seems unduly to emphasize the political aspect of their emigration; and he tends to make Harvard's seriousness rather more solemn than one should expect in an eternal benefactor of youth...
...Puritan's austerity of grace...
...duplicating, so far as possible, those which Harvard bequeathed to the infant College and which were burnt in the fire of 1764. The collection is by no means complete, but it is sufficiently extensive to give a good idea of the character of the library owned by the young Puritan clergyman. In looking at these books, which are now old and dilapidated, it must be borne in mind that the greater part of them were recently published works in Harvard's time, and that his library, while containing a good many classics and older works, was, on the whole...
...selections of the prize winners were as follows: I.L. Sharfman '07, "The Puritan Principle: Liberty under the Law," Curtis; G.J. Hirsch '07, "The Faith of Mahomet," Carlyle; A.R. Ellis '07, "Gunga Din," Kipling; M. Allen '08, "Speech on General Amnesty," Schurz; E.F. Tyson '07, "The Better Part," B.T. Washington...