Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country; how I have changed my opinion about the President, by certain Harvard non-graduates; the President as a receiver of gifts, by the givers; and the President as host to foreign visitors, from all over the world. Then might come another series, giving the student of today some more definite idea of the changes in this single administration of forty years. It would be well to read something further about the steps in the rise of standard with increase of numbers; of the tenfold increase of officers...
...project of establishing a Harvard school of medicine in the Orient cannot fail to awaken the enthusiasm of anyone interested in the extension of the University's influence throughout the world. Harvard's prestige in foreign countries is already very great, as is shown by the list of students enrolled here, but there is still much room to spread and strengthen her reputation and fame. In Europe her lecturers have been received with the greatest respect as representing the highest type of American learning; in the Far East her influence has been felt through the representatives of the Harvard Mission...
Interest in the matter led us to look further into the question of mitts and gloves as used by the big teams of the present. Almost without exception we find the World's Champions, the National and American League teams, the minor leagues, semi-professional, college and amateur nines all sing mitts and gloves made by the A. J. Reach Company of Philadelphia. The name tells much, for Mr. Reach himself was one of the famous second basemen of his day, and so knows what is required in the shape of mitts and gloves...
...demand for such a variety of mitts and gloves, in all styles and shapes, in different materials and at different prices to meet varied requirements has resulted in making the Reach lines the standard of the world...
...same nature is Mr. Follett's "Star-Wondering" in which he sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit...