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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...statue of Venus of Melos, said Mr. Robinson, has been a subject of dissentions and discussion since its discovery. First of all the name has been finally settled upon as Melos by all archiologists. Then, too, it has been contended that the statue is not of Venus, but of a nymph, or a muse...
Professor Peabody spoke before the members of the Religious Union last evening, upon "Christian Maystics." He said in brief: The mystic is one who stands in immediate relation with his God. Once called Musionists, the mystics through Emerson's influence came to be called transcendentalists. Among their number are classed men of all ages and all beliefs; Emerson, Jones Very, Thomas a Kempis. The mystic is never the worker, the philanthrophist, the thinker. For active life man must leave mysticism behind him. But to awaken ennobling emotions, to quicken deep and true feelings, one should turn often to the literature...
...year. It was a war for freedom. Such a war offers an opportunity for great bravery and selfsacrifice, and Harvard had her share of heroes in Shaw, Bartlett, Davis, Wilder, Dwight, and many others. While war offers a great opportunity for heroes, peace offers an equally good one. Lowell said, "It is peace which is the nursery of the virtues that shine...
...Storey closed with words of good advice. The world, he said, was full of good things, and there is nothing in the world which a man cannot have if he is willing to pay the world's price for it. The coin in which he must pay is his life. Pecuniary fortune a man can lose several times, but life can only be lost once. Every man, therefore, should be careful of his life and remember that the country needs men today just as much...
Aristotle, said Professor Goodwin, was born at Stageira, in the year 384 B. C. At the age of seventeen he inherited a fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...