Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard's Duty" seems to the essayist to be the development of gentlemen politicians"; but from rather an illogical premise that "politics should be a career and not a business", the writer quickly comes to earth and emphasizes the paucity of political discussion in the University. We have, as he says, the Taft Club and the La Follette Club, but neither organization takes the trouble to discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions...
...that "because the star had not been seen before it must not be taken that it has just been formed. It is several hundred years old beyond a doubt. The equation of light is such that it takes that long for the rays to come that distance to the earth...
...need of an extension of Harvard fellowship into the general life of the community. To us this new club which is to be built near the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues appears as a place where in the future we can come from the ends of the earth and find welcome among Harvard graduates and Harvard professors in a manner that has not been possible hitherto. In this way it promises to be of the greatest importance in producing a situation which we shall all appreciate after we have left the lecture-halls of the University...
...Harvard, in order that the others may laugh, is not a help towards the broadness and religious toleration in which all Harvard men take pride. There are many Roman Catholics at Harvard. To them the Pope is a sacred representative of Christ. He is called Christ's vicar upon earth. To speak of their great spiritual master as the verse in the Monthly speaks, is to insult Catholics and broad-minded men in general at Harvard as well as the Pope himself. I do not wish to offend the writer of the verse when I say that his work displays...
...Sheldon Fellows were literally spread over the face of the earth: Mr. Philip, Greeley Clapp was studying Music in Germany; Mr. Oscar James Campbell, Comparative Literature in England; Mr. Edgar Davidson Congdon, Zoology in Europe; Mr. Melvin Thomas Copeland, the cotton industry in Europe; Mr. Summer Webster Cushing, Geography in India; Messrs. Arthur Johnson Eames and Edmund Ware Sinnott, Botany in Australia; Mr. Griffith Conrad Evans, Mathematics in Europe; Mr. Augustus Locke, Mining and Metallurgy in the United States and Mexico; Mr. Robert Grant Martin, English Dramatic Literature in England; Mr. Sheldon Osgood Martin, Economics in South America; Mr. Henry...