Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Since Friday night the brilliancy has decreased if anything. Since 1887 there have been ten new stars found, eight by the Harvard Observatory and two by Dr. Anderson. In 1891, and at the present time, the stars were discernable to the taked eye, but the only evidences in the world that the rest have existed is contained in this collection...
...added to the present very small endowment fund of the school. Dr. Nies in a tour covering a year, examined the whole territory of the Holy Land, and his search resulted in the surprising discovery that in Palestine, which is archaeologically the most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research are being conducted. The surveys of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, though carefully and thoroughly carried out, have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest of it are being destroyed or carried away...
...Prince d'Aurec," M. Henri Lavedan reached the height of a grand comedy of "moeurs." Like the great majority of his works which deal in the peculiar world of "viveurs," "Le Prince d'Aurec describes vividly the experiences of a French nobleman of illustrious family, who tries the life of the "fetards" and "boulevardiers...
...five stories in this number, two have to do directly with College life and in many ways are more satisfactory than those in which the scenes are laid out side the student world. "Enough for Reggy," especially, comes very near being the sort of story, the lack of which is deplored in the "Apology for Stories...
...religion of a nation one must study that nation's characteristics. The Hebrews were originally a nomadic tribe and as such possessed a nomadic cult, which had much in common with the later monotheistic idea. Like all nations, the Hebrews had two sides to their national character. The world y ambition and soldiery qualities of the Maccabees and the like go side by side with and are constantly striving against the unworld-liness and angelic virtues of Hoses, Amos and the other inspired prophets. The three chief characteristics of the Hebrew nation were an extreme sensitiveness in matters of religion...