Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ralph D. Paine Yale '94, spoke last evening in the Union, giving a description of his adventures as a war correspondent, in Cuba and China. Two years before the recent Spanish War he took part in a filibustering expedition to Cuba, during which he had many exciting and humorous experiences. After describing these, he told how, during the war, he managed to send the cable about the sinking of the Merrimac, and how he succeeded in landing in Havana, where he was arrested and not released till be promised to discontinue his newspaper work in Cuba. Mr. Paine then told...
...next spoke of the beauty of the north portal and pointed out the improvement over the primitive art of the west portal in strength, of sureness of conception and execution, and in a similar manner described the south portal and its allegery, the creation, and the history of the six days...
President Eliot spoke in part as follows...
Professor Kuno Francke Curator of the Germanic Museum, emphasized the value that such a Museum might be in helping the student to visualize his ideas of German art and "to adapt his sensual perception to the objects of his study." He spoke also of the power the Museum might become in helping to check narrow specialization, by bringing together "the art student and the philologist, the student of political as well as of literary history." Hon. Carl Schurz, President of the Germanic Museum Association spoke of the Museum as a instance of and help to international friendship between Germany...
Professor William James, on behalf of the Faculty, welcomed the Germanic Museum as an addition to our general back-ground of culture. He spoke of the spirit of study here.--minute research, mainly, as derived from Germany, and said that Harvard could recognize its own spirit of great individuality in these objects of plastic art. He compared the Germanic with the Classic spirit in art. Bacon expressed the Germanic spirit when he wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works...