Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This survey serves to bring out the large proportion of his teaching which deals with the simplest principles of ethics. These could not possibly perish because of their irresistible vitality. Even the man who can get no religion out of the teaching of Jesus can yet find a priceless treasure in his ethical teachings...
...those who, as undergraduates, knew Dean Shaler, and were in touch with his wonderful personality, few remain in Cambridge. They have scattered throughout the world, carrying with them that priceless experience. It now remains for 1908, the last class that spent a full year at Harvard while Professor Shaler lived, to perpetuate his memory among the generations to come, by hanging his portrait in the Living Room of the Union. It is a fitting gift, for which the committee in charge should feel it an honor to arrange; and which the class should feel it a greater honor to bestow...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...
...lecture was concluded with a review of the national popular plays, a priceless gift which the Bretons alone possess, and a unique outgrowth of the mystery plays of the middle ages...
...eleven, the nine, the crew and the track team between 1855 and 1904. We quote from his report. "These investigations show that the athlete possesses, as part of his equipment at graduation, the probability of better health and a longer life than the man who does not realize the priceless worth of a sound mind in a sound body. And this ancient phrase is supported by the soundest physiological research. For, roughly speaking, there are two portions of the brain, one of r muscles, another for the mind. If either is developed at the expense of the other, the result...