Word: world
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior sitting at the top of the of the world is a fitting cover for the Class Day Lampoon. On that day, at least, the Senior feels absolute proprietorship of the world and probably of that world's representatives: the sisters and other fellows' sisters who make Class Day "or better Lass Day," what it is. Not yet does he have that sensation of the world slipping from under him that comes on Commencement. But the Lampoon would not suggest sad thoughts so appropriately. The Hero is firmly seated. The color on the cever and as a background of many...
...These excellent qualities are not found in the stories of the Monthly, Mr. Adams's "Beyond the Gate," Mr. Bellows's "Brother and Sister," and Mr. Carbs's "Reveilles." Mr. Moon's "In the Track of the Turk" shows experience in an out-of-the-way corner of the world; it could have been made more tense...
...should be glad to find something showing more of the spirit of our little world in Cambridge. It is a big little world and yet awaits its Homer, even its Conan Doyle
...Track" is a brief summary by one who knows. "The Agassiz Centenary" reprints three speeches too charming to pass away with the daily newspaper. "The Adventures of a Dry Nurse" is probably too true a picture of a young schoolmaster's dormitory life. "Our Interest in the Outside World" makes a suggestion more sanguine than practical. "The Weld Boathouse" gives interesting facts in rather inferior form...
...Harvard College enter upon a business career. For these men, as well as for the other members of the class, it seems to us that it would be a good plan to invite some man prominent in industry to speak to the Seniors on the demands of the business world on college men today--to tell them what they can do by their own power, as a result of their training here, and by the force of their example, to raise the tone of our industrial life. Such an address, it seems to us, could point out in a practical...