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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moment in the development of the Museum, which hitherto has received most of its enrichments in the field of the earlier masters. It is evident that the Museum can never be expected to compete with the large public collections of pictures. It may readily be seen, however, that a small, rigidly selective collection of paintings, representing the best in many schools, and periods, would add an element of high value to the courses of instruction in the fine arts at Harvard. The Sargent landscape marks a possible starting-point for future 'accessions' of the greatest significance...
...four Harvard editors: E. S. Martin, of Life; Ellery Sedgwick, of the Atlantic Monthly; Frank H. Simonds, of the New York Tribune, and Mark Sullivan, of Collier's Weekly. Of these the suggestion of Mr. Sullivan's career--the great national weekly built on the early knowledge of a small Pennsylvania town, is easily the most interesting. The equally interesting work of Mr. Sedgwick in editing the Atlantic has not received quite the same keen weighing...
These things are highly pleasant, but they do not compose Christmas. They are no more Christmas than the small boy's ideal of a time when he receives the consummation of all his dreams, and eats more than a small boy should ever...
...provocative individualism, is hardly that. If any Englishman is wanted for the post, Canon Rashdall is probably the man with experience as an educator who is best fitted for it. But greatness in such a place is largely a matter of personality, and the Harvard authorities have no small task on their hands in finding men who shall make philosophy a living interest in this America of ours which so greatly needs it. Springfield Republican...
Whenever the sunlight shines through small apertures it makes small circles--elusive, golden and beautiful. They are perhaps most often noticed in the morning when the weariness from a day's work has not come over one. They are small floating islands of joy which the child laughs at and seeks to capture. In life at college one may also find numerous sun circles. A person with a real smile makes the difference of a cloudy day changed to a sunshiny day. The slightest semblance of a joke, in a tense atmosphere of a class room, often causes the whole...