Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What men get in college life, which is of worth, is not wholly in lectures and recitations, but in the contact with educated men and seeing the ways of the world. Thus the old-time idea of a professor apart from the world and above it is outgrown; and such a man would not be the one who could direct consolidated work...
...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
...sensitively high that no one need despair of the students' ethical intelligence. . . .In some ways all this is healthy. A young fellow who sees a high standard of truth for anybody's conduct may in time see it for his own. All he needs is to discover that the world was not made for him only; and a year or two out of college should teach him that...
...sleepy commonplace of average existence. The novel, on the other hand, leaves one with a profound realization of its tragedy, --"played out." Its lesson is that human beings must ultimately go somewhere beyond Vanity Fair for lasting happiness. Without changing the motley for the gown, Thackeray has preached the world a great moral truth. But Mr. Mitchell leaves Becky so well off that one rather sympathizes with her misdemeanors...
...books necessary to establish one. In the circular which this committee is sending out is stated that "It is essential to the larger views and thorough study of education which the Department seeks to give its students that it should be able to put within their reach the world's important literature on education and the books of reference that their work demands...