Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard Christian Association. The Bible and the University Man. Mr. John R. Mott, Gen. Sec. World's Student Christian Federation. Phillips Brooks House...
...remembered in this connection is the age of these men. Few were more than twenty-three years old. The growing habit of spending long years in preparation for a life work is a grave error. As soon as a man or a woman can do strenuous work in the world, that will be found the best training. A course of study should only be long enough to win power; the sooner you begin to use it the better. Do not get in four years what you can get in three. Our aim in life is not to work...
This feeling or emotion is and has always been the most potent influence in the social life of the world. The modern influence, to be sure, is against this spirit, thanks to the prominent position which science has taken of late years. Imagination and poetry are scoffed at and reduced to the tests of analyzation. No one can deny that a spirit of plain reality is most invigorating; the question is whether science is the real end in all that some of its followers would have us believe...
...Naturalism and its Results" is the title of an article by Dean C. C. Everett in "The New World" for September...
...Democrat," will at that time be organized. Aside from this Harvard publication, a magazine, partly political, and managed by private enterprize, is to appear for the first time about October 15. Copies will be distributed in all the American colleges. The magazine, which will be known as "The College World," will contain college stories, an athletic department edited by P. D. Haughton '99 and a political department edited by H. B. Kirtland...