Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Since the Democratic party has absolutely thrown away the low tariff position which such leaders as Cleveland, Carlisle, Wilson, and Russell won for it, the reciprocity doctrine of the Republican party seems to afford the best immediate opportunity for liberal legislation; although it must be confessed that progress towards world-wide trade is more likely to come through the logic of events than than through legislation--that is, through the increasing superiority of American industries and the manifest insufficiency of the home market." The other passage, concluding the paragraph, modifies the assertion concerning Republican capitalists...
Environment is a long word, somewhat obscure in meaning, but it has a valuable place as indicating a way of looking at man that is characteristic of our time. The old idea of an absolute creation of all life in the world lost hold during the upheaval of the French Revolution; and it was a French student who first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully...
This summer, even, in spite of his failing health, Dr. Everett was busy with literary work. On his return from a short trip abroad, he edited the New World, in the absence of the regular editor, Professor Gilman. His last work was an article for the September Atlantic, on "James Martineau...
...last five years, Mr. Mott has been the executive head of the Student Christian Association and the Student Volunteer movement of America. In 1899 he received an honorary A.M. from Yale in recognition of his "distinguished services to the students of the world...
...Harvard Christian Association. The Bible and the University Man. Mr. John R. Mott, Gen. Sec. World's Student Christian Federation. Phillips Brooks House...