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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Spenser's great work. of course, is the "Fairy Queen" which remained unfinished at his death. In it he tries to represent in an allegory a perfect gentleman in search of glory...
...servility. All the forces which make enlargement of life possible, education, physical training, religion, are roads to liberty. From this we may form a definition of liberty. Liberty is the transfer of allegiance from lower to higher things. The young man again, who gives up law in his search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest which swallows up all his smaller ones. He may find this higher interest through some teacher or some friend or in his own experience...
...comes to Humanity, just as the artist, the thinker, are door between the realms of beauty, and truth, and men. Through Christ God reveals himself to men. There is an innate passion in the human mind for expansion and one of the forms which this passion takes is a search for God. It is to this searching that the words come "I am the door...
...education. The principles which Comenius represented are embodied in his various writings, the most important of which are the "Great Didactic," the "Gate of Languages" and the "World Illustrated." The object of the first of these was, as expressed in the subtitle, "to teach everybody everything" and "to search out a rule in accordance with which the teachers teach less and the learners learn more." Knowledge, virtue and religious conviction, the three things to be sought after in life, are to be obtained through study. To educate humanity so as to give it an adequate consciousness of itself...
Some time since, a committee was appointed to search out several suitable sites for the new club house of the Harvard Club of New York. Recently this committee reported as desirable situations, a lot on 52nd Street between Madison and Fourth Avenues and another on 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It is proposed that the exterior of the building to be erected should be modeled after that of Harvard Hall...