Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...object of the journal is to offer, in an accessible literary form, the work and progress of the several departments of knowledge. The first volume, will contain the following articles by Harvard men. The Influence of the Sun upon the Formation of the Earth's Surface, by Professor Shaler, Recent Advance in Physical Science, by Professor Trowbridge; The Theatrical Syndicate, by Norman Hapgood '90. There is also an article on Later Evolution in French Criticism, by Edonard Red. Professor Royce is on the advisory board of philosophy and Professor C. H. Toy of comparative religion...
...will be taken by the Harvard Observatories at Cambridge and Blue Hill, and by Professor Upton of Brown University who is co-operating with Professor Pickering. The idea of these three photographic stations is to give a parallax so as to see how high the meteor is from the earth's surface when it appears and disappears...
...Henry Van Dyke of New York, delivered the baccalaureate sermon to the Senior class in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, taking for his text, Matthew 5; 13, "Ye are the salt of the earth...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
...three shorter articles, "Sans Adieu," by T. S. Hardy '99, is easily the best. This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...