Word: cosmopolitanism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...already have so many organizations with more or less worthy purposes that another seems somewhat superfluous. The Cosmopolitan Club, however, will cater to a class which has at present no representative organization, although its possible members form a much larger number than are enrolled by many of the small and specialized societies which annually spring into existence...
...will doubtless be impossible to bring this organization at once into a position as strong as that of the Cosmopolitan Club of Cornell. The inertia of a new idea will operate to retard its progress, as well as the absorption of the natural leaders of such a move by other interests. But, if started, this society should not occupy the position of numerous other bodies which have monthly smokers as the only excuse for their existence. It should be so conducted that newly-arrived foreigners will feel that an active interest is felt in them by more than the College...
...Cosmopolitan--"An Interrupted Story," W. P. Eaton '00; "Paid on Acceptance," G. A. England...
...literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary courts of far away lands...
...City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American...