Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...World's Work--"Camera Shots at Wild Animals," by Theodore Roosevelt '80; "The Rebuilding of New York," by M. G. Cunniff...
...done over. His life was so manly, strenuous and truthful that he won the respect and love of all who came in contact with him. Professor Thayer's life work was the interpretation and criticism of the New Testament, a work for which he was noted throughout the Christian world. He was not only a master of the New Testament, but he was a model of its teachings. His work influenced his whole life and helped to make him the strong, generous, open hearted man that...
...wonderful change and growth, he said, has taken place in American life during the last fifty years, and Harvard, which reflects the conditions of the outside world as almost no other institution of learning, has changed as wonderfully. Back in the forties and fifties life at Harvard was so simple, and so different from today that the student of today can scarcely imagine it. Then there were no dormitories outside the Yard; the Yard was the centre of all College life. One of the chief temporal ambitions of every student was to room on the Yard; a room in Holworthy...
...question of divine power in the world, he said, which was filling the Greek mind when Paul made his sublime speech to the Athenians from Mars Hill, in which are found the words of the text. The Greeks had been imagining, just as men have always imagined, what forces ruled this world, and in their anxiety to reverence every divine power, they had erected an altar "to an unknown god." It was this god that Paul so marvelously described to them. His conception, familiar to all of us today, of the one all-powerful, all-loving God, was simply...
...decide whether or not we shall accept this conception today. Some explanation of how man and the world came into existence and what are their destinies is absolutely essential to satisfy the inward cravings of human nature. Thinking men of all ages have been able to suggest but two ways of accounting for man and the world: one by supposing them the creations and creatures of great mechanical, dead "natural" laws, the other by supposing them due to natural laws, but laws the manifestation and will of divine intelligence...