Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...same as for all other departments in the Scientific School and the courses practically correspond to those given last year in mining and metallurgy. Nearly all of the work is done in the Rotch Building which contains five different laboratories with equipments equal to any in the world. The building also contains the large library of Raphael Pumpelly, professor in the Scientific School from 1866 to 1875. The work and equipment in the department is intended to give as thorough a preparation as is possible. The course may be completed in four years. The required work in the first...
...first number of "The Intercollegiate News," which has just been issued, contains letters from twenty-five college correspondents, who have carefully covered the current news of the college world. The athletic news is especially complete, the baseball and crew prospects of the different colleges being given. The official minutes of the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. are printed in full, including the amendments to the constitution bylaws and laws of athletics, which were unanimously adopted. Several pages are devoted to some clever verse and well illustrated short stories. The associate editor for Harvard, L. P. Frothingham...
...negatives belonging to the Observatory are kept. The present building's accommodations have for a long time been insufficient for the housing of this collection of negatives which furnish a history of the entire stellar universe for the past twelve years and which is not duplicated anywhere in the world...
...religious problems depend upon ideals and facts. Facts take the form of determined objects, ideals of undetermined. Facts may or may not permit ideals to be realized; and there are many ideals which may or may not be embodied in facts. Ideals are seeking a place in the world of facts, and thus we naturally look for a supreme Being there. Is there such a Being? Is the knowledge which we have enough to warrant such an ideal...
Human civilization depends first, upon making the physical world a store-house of instruments--facts; second, upon an increasing love of our ideals. We have, then, so far, a drawn battle between the advocates of the supremacy of facts and of ideals. But the greatest of our ideals is that there are ultimate facts, objects, that is, which, were we wise enough, we ought to observe. No man has seen God,--yet neither has he seen a fact. Ultimate facts are beyond our own experience, but not beyond any experience; and to say a fact does not exist...