Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these days of tests and the preparation for tests, the Library has become a place of unwonted interest. It is the Mecca of all students, both the wise and those desirous of being so; and to it the faithful make regularly their diurnal pilgrimage. Only twice throughout the long year is Widener so popular; and its marble steps brace themselves joyously to meet the tread of passing hundreds...
...idealism. His most brilliant works, "Principia Mathematica" (1910) and "Problems of Philosophy" (1911) aroused a revolutionary enthusiasm among the Syounger and rising philosophers of the present generation. His visit will undoubtedly be a great factor in paving the way for a revival of Harvard's position as the mecca of philosophers as it had been when the so-called "Harvard Group" of philosophers--James, Palmer, Santayana, and Royce--was intact...
...delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library, where they add a fresh distinction to the 'Treasure Room...