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...every year to have my little talk with you about books and the men that have written them. If I remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after...
...languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness that comes with age to good books as to good men. Mere scholarship is as useless as the collecting of old postage stamps. Kant used to say that there was nothing in the world so dreary as the company of mere scholars. With nothing but Lemprire's Dictionary and Chapman's Homer, Keats...
Frank Fay Howe of the class of '92 died at his home in South Framingham, Mass., on February 24th, at the age of 25 years. Mr. Howe had been ill since last Thanksgiving, but he had been able to be up and about until a week before his death, when he was seized with acute Bright's disease. His funeral was held at his home in Concord street, the Rev. F. E. Emrich pastor of the Grace Congregational church officiating...