Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Canada and the East, will be present. Among the speakers already announced are Campbell Morgan of London, Dr. Maltbre D. Babcock of New York, President Seth Low of Columbus, Robert E. Speer of New York; and Dr. Alexander McKemais of Cambridge. The fact that John R. Moss of the World's Christian Student Federation will preside as and direct the conference augure well for the success...
...Rivalry of Nations," by E. A. Start '93, is another article which deserves mention. In is an instalment of a continued history of present-day world politics, and as such possesses great current interest...
...Nations," which is now in press, to be published by Lea Brothers and Company, of Philadelphia, this summer. The work is a translation with additions of the "Allgemeine Weltgeschichte" originally published in Berlin about fourteen years ago. The first twenty volumes treat the history of the Old World from the earliest times down to 1900, and are by distinguished German scholars, such as Justi, Herzberg, Pflugk-Harttung, Philippson, Prutz and Flathe. The next three volumes, on the History of America, are contributed by Professor John Fiske of Cambridge, and the last volume is an index. The work is profusely illustrated...
...idea of continental Europe in regard to the productive scholarship in the New World can be as easily as briefly stated: there is none. A widely read German history of civilization says this about American scholarship: American universities are hardly more than ordinary schools in Germany. It is true they receive large sums of money from rich men; but they cannot attain to anything, because the institutions either remain under the control of the Church, or the professors are appointed on account of their political or personal connections, not on account of their knowledge. The professors therefore have, naturally, more...
...Turn in the Way," by C. R. Saunders '01, is an interesting analysis of the train of thought of the college man who shrinks at the sudden realization that the world's work is before him. The sketch is artistically clothed with a whispering summer night but it is unsatisfying, because it is issueless...