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...younger men the most prominent is Dana Gibson. His methods are rather peculiar but his effects are always true. F. S. Church is one of the most original of American artists. His picture, "The Viking's Daughter," is an ideal conception of a beautiful woman. It is a picture of a typical American woman...
...person Booth was singularly good to look at. He was of middle height and more closely knit than most Americans, but his body, though so compact, was grace itself. Every muscle, every feature was under perfect control, and it was this that enabled him to be his best characters rather than to act them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were...
...generous fund of personal experience from which he can draw to illustrate and emphasize whatever points he may care to make. We would suggest that the writers of the communication take the matter in hand and proceed with arrangements. It would be well to have the invitation come rather from the students than from the college authorities, though their sanction and endorsement should be secured. Somebody must head the movement and no one will take more interest in it than the men who have subgested...
...worship God through the ideals of our own souls. Why then talk of worshipping God, rather than that power of goodness and truth which is in humanity? Certainly the latter would be better than worshiping a cold force outside of ourselves. Is there no alternative? Can we not worship the infinite through the best that is in the Human, and thus rise form the human to the divin? But in the way of the pilgrim who journeys toward the city of God stands the giant Anthropomorphism. The saying "These cannot be God, because the workman made them," is as true...
...situation today is a compromise. Instead of pursuing either of the extreme courses a bridge has been put across between them. Right here, it seems to us, the petitioners have gone astray. They seem to look upon the new relations between Harvard and the Annex as an accomplished end rather than as a first step towards an end. They see something which is unsatisfactory and they reason that therefore it is wrong. Unless we are very much mistaken a majority of Harvard professors and some at least of the overseers also feel that it is unsatis factory, but,- and here...