Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...summon up to the tiny show-box of the brain, in material breadth scarce a span, yet infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone...
...right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather seek to teach the people the laws of the spirit. This is a very wrong point of view. The minister has always stood and will always stand as the head and guiding power of public opinion. Ministers are usually better educated than their congregations and must therefore place certain important questions before the people in the proper light. It is therefore most necessary that ministers should have some...
Assurance is given that every seat in the theatre which has been sold is good, and will furnish a satisfactory view of the play. The undersirable seats, those in the end sections of the balcony and the gallery, will not be used. With this arrangement we believe undergraduates will be content. To yield the most desirable seats is, under the circumstances, the plain bidding of courtesy...
Andrea del Sarto was of the Florentine type, pure and simple. His subjects were always given to him by the church and were ill chosen to express his skill. He was a materialist in his work, and lacking in loftiness of view. If Leonardo da Vinci looked too deep, Andrea hardly looked deep enough, and we find a lack of spirit and feeling in his pictures. As a craftsman, however, he was faultless. The best painter and colorist of them...
...University has applied to the United States government to detail an officer to give instruction in the theory and history of military tactics and science at Harvard. The government has accepted. No man has as yet been definitely decided upon, but Professor Hollis has two excellent men in view and the course will doubtless be started next year...