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...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...
That a man whose experience in world affairs has been as wide as Clemenceau's should deliberately decide not to mention in his volumes the political events in which he figured seems unfair. What ever abstract conclusions he may set down, the breath of life goes out of them when they are not definitely connected with human events. Men study the writings of great figures in history chiefly to gain the man's opinion of the events in which he figured, not to be regaled by philosophical abstractions. When a man passes eighty years, as M. Clemenceau has, the fruit...
...Most Harvard graduates of years think of Arthur Beane especially in connection with the Phillips Brooks House, but many will remember how very wide his laterests were and how much he did for individuals in many sorts of relations. When the Freshman Dormitories were started, he was one of those most interested in them and one who, by constant visiting of individuals, helped to give new members of the University community their first ideas of what Harvard means and what life here is all about. This interest in the individual was one of the outstanding features of his character...
...years as a Yale coach and in his later advisory capacity. "The passing of Walter Camp", he said, "is a great loss to athletics both in schools and in colleges. He retained in middle life the vigor and the enthusiasms of youth to a remarkable degree. His influence was wide and significant and was always exercised in the best directions...
...been inclined to celebrate this book with song and shouting. Clearly, it surpasses most in rapidity, precision, force. Its people breathe. Its consequences descend inevitably. Its arraignments are terse, detached, restrained; and if its pleasantries are few and curt, so are its unpleasantries. The author's instrument had wide range-from the wild, high notes of Bohemia to the sodden, dry thumps of English respectability. An undisciplined performer might have slipped into coarse discords and fierce hurricanoes of sound and fury. Miss Kennedy, possibly because she is English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy, now 29, has shown...