Word: rare
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard men throughout the country the death of Dean Shaler brings again that keen sense of personal loss we felt thirteen years ago when Phillips Brooks died. To a high degree both possessed rare power of winning the affection of men--making their loyal friends not only those with whom they daily associated, but also those whom they chanced to meet and who to them frequently remained almost unknown. The source of Dean Shaler's power of thus winning and holding men lay, I have always felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved...
...Harvard students are interested in Japan and care to correspond with our students, it will, I believe, not only be a source of great pleasure to both parties, but will also do them real good; and in the case of our students it will also give them a rare--if not the only opportunity of expressing their thought in earnest in a foreign tongue which they are now studying for seven or eight years...
...Ibsen. Sardon is theatrical and mechanical, while Ibsen is perfectly natural. He shows only the finer parts of his characters' lives and therefore in order to act Ibsen it is necessary for the actor to study the life of the character from childhood up. Real dramatic appreciation is rare in this country and the stage can only become what it should be when the public will take nothing but the best...
...your columns in calling attention to the rare privilege offered to all musical students in the University next Monday evening, the 11th, when M. Vincent D'Indy, the eminent French composer, is to lecture in the Fogg Art Museum upon "Cesar Frank, the man, the artist, and his influence upon modern French composers." For the last twenty years or more Frank's genius has been gaining recognition and now he is universally acknowledged to be one of the few truly great composers in recent years. M. D'Indy is one of his most distinguished pupils, and a composer himself...
...Fletcher is one of the most original and "sympathetic" personalities whom Massachusetts in our day has produced. His teaching and example have been of such vital benefit to certain persons whom I know, that I feel as if every student ought to give himself the benefit of this rare opportunity. WILLIAM JAMES...