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...three great motives in Italian painting, the classical, the religious, and the natural, reached their consummation in the High Renaiseance. The classical and religious motives need not be further taken up, but about the motive of nature there is still much to be said. The reformers in art tried hard to study and imitate nature, but more to raise the standard of art as regards correctness,than for the pure and simple love of the beautiful. But gradually painters began to study nature for itself, and to be less and less bound down by the wishes of the church...
...club was formed "to impress upon the students of Harvard University the need of Civil Service Reform, and to extend their knowledge of the principles and methods by which this reform can be accomplished...
Inasmuch as there have been several cases of measles in college, it seems important to re-emphasize the need for personal care to prevent the spread of the disease. Two of the cases have been traced to visits to a popular preparatory school in which there have been a number of cases. A third individual caught the disease from one of the others in a game of cards when that other was feeling slightly ill and was being thus cheered...
...wish to call attention to the need of some hall or room in which one may practice speaking. No one, especially no one with a room-mate, wishes to practice in his own room, unless he has some serious grudge against his neighbors. There is no doubt that the best place to supply this need would be Holden Chapel, since it has no adjoining rooms, and is not used by any other department. If the Y. M. C. A. could find it convenient to transfer its reading room to some other place, and allow Holden Chapel to be devoted...
...uphold the claims of the mind. There is no call for it: both lay emphasis on a different means, but both really have the same end in view, and would find, if they threw away their hostile feelings, that the different means were not incompatible, but that all are needed. So long as men insist on their own views and present inclinations, the University will tend to go from one extreme to the other. There is a great need for a willingness on the part of all kinds of men to see the truth in other men's positions...