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...very old man, President Emeritus of a Massachusetts University, celebrated a fortnight ago his 92nd birthday. No enormous cake glistening with petals of pink fondant marked the occasion; no 92 candles shone in the old man's eyes, no speeches were made, no toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect...
...wise have no need of movement," Echinus would say. "Their active thought supplies its place." Or: "The world was chaos; suddenly there shone a great golden egg; it whirled in space. . . . And then there came the first dew upon the first morning of the world, which was the benediction of God and filled the hollows of the egg with heavenly water...
...Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed, the only defeat he suffered in his 18 years of service was that of 1912, when his father-in-law decided to run on a third ticket; Longworth did not go with him, but he lost, nonetheless. In the main, his trouble was that he shone in the public eye by virtue of reëleeted glory. Not until he was made Floor Leader did he gain any general reputation of his own. "Speaker Longworth" will give him another claim to distinction on his own account. It will give him a name of his own, in which...
...discerning, candid, just and cheering because convinced of the overwhelming predominance of good in the student world.' And unshaken and unshakable in this conviction, which is the soul of love, for more than 40 years Le Baron Briggs has walked among us and wist not that his face shone. . . ."It was the gentle Josiah Royce, who once said musingly: 'I should like some time to feel as good as Briggs really is, "and therein he voiced the sentiment of all men who have come to know Briggs. And what a host they are." Harvard men, here and there...
...course, Ormond Beach, Fla., a group had gathered. Mr. Rockefeller placed his pinch of sand, poked a white ball onto the top of it, took a stance. Swack! Off went the ball, down the fairway, clear of the water. He gave his club back to the caddy; his eyes shone like blue beads in his parchment face. Up came Mr. Baker, swacked off his ball three yards further. The two began their match. It was Mr. Rockefeller's first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved...