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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned, but he has chosen "Education" for his subject this evening. I wish to present to you President Garfield of Williams College...
...does Harvard alone attest his greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity...
...Peabody Museum has received a very extensive collection from L. H. Farlow. This collection contains various specimens of the work of the American Indians, including bows, arrows, baskets, and an old drum, which was recovered from a lake in California. A very rare and singular coat of armor, such as was used by the primitive Hupa Indians, and beautiful head bands of red feathers are worthy of note. Dr. H. Rice '98 has presented various ornaments and weapons collected from the Zaporo Indians of Peru. Dr. J. C. Jones has donated a collection of New Guinea weapons and implements from...
This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth...
...Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities...