Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cosmopolitan for November contains a descriptive and historical account with portraits and other cuts of Cornell University by Mr. Boyesen...
...cosmopolitan age we exchange our talents as we do our produce: communication is easy and the best is readily found; so we go to Paris for instruction in the art of expression, for it is there that it is most assiduously and, I think, most successfully cultivated; indeed it could hardly be otherwise, as literature in France grows under exceptionally favorable circumstances...
...Miss Austen follows her creations with the minuteness and relentlessness of providence, is she necessarily false? It has been said that only one language can be thoroughly mastered by any one, and as the style is the man, so the language is the nation. No one can be a cosmopolitan writer; the world is too wide and too complex; not Sophocles, not Victor Hugo, and certainly not Tolstoi. To cut short this essay, this story seems rather inaccurate and a little labored...
...that our president deserves all the enjoyment which he can crowd into six short months. It is a source of pleasure to us that Harvard is drawing more and more from the West each year, and that the claim formerly loudly advanced by Yale that she was the only cosmopolitan university, must so soon be abandoned as untenable. When westerners as a body forget their silly prejudices against Boston, we can hope that Harvard will become as popular among their young men as among those of the East who are now learning under her guidance, to be "earnest and upright...
...large part of the students here are "non-society" men, and have nothing but a superficial acquaintance with their fellow-students outside of the narrow circle into which they may have happened to fall. The result is that they tail to receive the benefit of the broad and cosmopolitan influence that association with men of various types and coming from all points of the country must expect. A university club would obviate this, and besides affording social enjoyments, it would bring both students and instructors into close relations, and would make them feel that they were one body united...