Word: world
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. He discussed the Breton nature and showed its close resemblance to that of the other Celtic peoples. In summing up their characteristic traits he pointed out the craving for adventure which has constantly lead them from the east to the west, from the old world to the new. They became greater navigators than the Phoenicians or the Scandinavians, and Homer's Odessey in comparison with St. Brandon's voyages seems but a commonplace trip. No race has been so endowed in the creation of fiction as the common peasants of Brittany and Ireland, who excel...
Brittany is considered by the French today as a sort of national park, a land of dreams and poetry, where writers come from all parts of the world for inspiration...
...World's Work--"The 101 Ranch," by M. G. Cunniff '98; "The A. B. C's of Foreign Correspondence," by E. N. Vose...
Friday night a team of thirteen men was entered in the Columbia Indoor Track Games. Yale defeated Dartmouth in a two-mile relay race and W. R. Dray '08 broke the world's indoor pole vaulting record with a jump of 11 ft. 7 1-5 inches. The same night Yale was defeated by Pennsylvania in basketball by a score...
...belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country is to be sound, our commerce and society must be of sound character. Critics have said, that democracy is inconsistent with the finest characteristics of past ages...