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...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
...severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge of his own and of other countries, and by acquaintance and enduring friendships with leading men of letters. He bore his learning with a grace that was peculiarly his own. Simplicity, sincerity, gentleness, courage, generosity, and unfailing courtesy marked the temper of his mind and his dealings with his fellow...
What a splendid thing it is to be endowed with a fertile imagination! There are those men in our society who can imagine almost anything there is a call for. They can turn their attention from one thing to another with equal facility and grace and imagine almost anything one might wish. They can close their eyes and see images or facts so clearly that on opening them they are morally convinced that what they have seen is true. It was an individual on this order that imagined the "authoritative statement that Coach Haughton had consented to serve for several...
...something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy in a peculiar sense, so characteristic of him. I suppose he never met any man without wishing to share with him the grace of his learning, the charm of his wisdom, the light of his knowledge of the world; but this is poorly suggestive of the pervasive influence of his constant precept and example, which only those whose lives it shaped could duly witness...
...will of the late Mrs. Grace M. Kuhn, who died at Lenox, Mass., on October 7, the sum of $175,000 has been bequeathed to the University to endow a new Department of Biological Chemistry. The endowment is made in memory of Mrs. Kuhn's son, who was interested in this particular branch of science, and will be known as the Hamilton Kuhn Professorship...