Word: visions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...HARVARD DIVINITY CLUB. Reading: Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal." Professor Winter. Divinity Chapel...
...generations. Few of us have known him personally but each time we have seen him we have admired him a little more; each time we have heard him we have gained a better conception of his power of insight which has seen goals that many men of good vision have been blind to; each time we have seen him honored by men of all callings, we have been proud of him and glad that he is ours--a truly great President. We shall miss him sorely...
...merits of contemporaneous art he was warmly appreciative, but he felt, as all men of large vision must feel, that much of it is too limited in purpose, and too experimental in method, to rank as yet with the highest achievements of past times. Thus in University teaching he felt that it was more important to acquaint young men with what the fine arts have been than to engage their attention extensively on the various phases of modern art which, though manifesting much that is hopeful, are more or less transient in character. CHARLES H. MOORE...
...everybody almost as a matter of course; and all regarded it, high students or low, as one of the signal events of the college years. Like Geology 4, Fine Arts 3 was a "soft course." Would there were more such! Under Professor Shaler the student gained a kindling vision of pretty much all of the natural world; under Professor Norton, of the human. In these two culture courses the speaker gave so much that there was little left for the hearers to do except to wonder, to enjoy, and to grow. Students accordingly flocked around in such numbers and eagerness...
...Platner, of Andover, will preside, and the speakers and their subjects will be as follows: Professor E. C. Moore, "The Minister's Relation to the Christian Influence throughout the World"; Professor E. S. Drowne, "The Intellectual Opportunity of the Minister"; Rev. O. P. Gifford, D.D., "The Minister's Vision and Task"; Dean W. W. Fenn, "The Minister's Influence...