Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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These two verses represent the contrasted conditions of college and of the outside world. College life and college standards of judgment are lenient; those of the world are severe and strict. Nor is the reason for this hard to understand. Men in college, with no keen competition of the world's life to drive them apart and with countless ties of common associations to draw them together, naturally come to regard and to trust one another as friends: individual struggle is the characteristic of the life of the outside world; there is less common sympathy and forbearance there than among...
What are the characteristics which will enable a man to meet this strict test of the world; to be considered as "of" and "for" men and not against them? First, he must give the world his best. He must make it the aim of his life not to look for easy positions, but to make himself indispensable and invaluable in whatever position he fills; he must feel "not that the world owes him a living, but that he owes the world a life." Second, he must not take something for nothing, but must pay full price for what he does...
...after all, this is all summed up simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...
...conference of the delegates of Universities and Colleges, attending the Boston Jubilee Convention of the Y. M. C. A. in Boston will be held in Brooks House this afternoon at 3. Mr. John R. Mott, the executive head of the World's Christian Student Federation will preside and will call upon some of the representatives of the student movements in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Germany and other foreign countries to describe the work in their own countries. Members of the University are invited to be present and to meet the foreign delegates informally after the conference...
Yesterday afternoon, with the greatest ease in the world, the CRIMSON baseball nine defeated the Lampoon in a so-called contest, which was replete with brilliant and original plays. The score was 28 to 7, but mere figures can hardly show the superiority of the Harvard men over their opponents...