Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...slow to grasp the close analogy between the physical and the spiritual. They realized fully that just as real hunger is essential to a right appreciation of God's bounty, so a longing for spiritual truth must exist, if we wish to attain the highest things of this world...
...students live in the Dudley Co-op, and 15 others lodge in Jordan for about half the board fee paid by house residents. According to Leo Cabranes-Grant, a resident tutor in Jordan, each co-op is a half-way house, a middle ground between "life in the real world" and a Harvard house...
...shrine to Karl Marx still guards the stairway to the third floor, and urges "Workers of the world unite" in 14 different languages...
...professor of rhetoric there, and two years after received the appointment to the chair of English literature, a position which he has lately given up, with the intention of devoting all his time to writing. Mr. Scollard's writings in verse include "With Reed and Lyre," "Old and New World Lyrics," "Songs of Sunrise Lands," "Pictures in Song," and "A Boy's Book of Rhyme...
Since September the collections at the Gray Herbarium have been increased to the extent of several thousand specimens from various parts of the world. Among the acquisitions is a collection of Central American plants, 875 in number, presented by Captain J. Donnell Smith of Baltimore. Another, consisting of some 900 specimens, has come from Porto Rico. The United States Department of Agriculture has sent 621 specimens of American grasses; the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna, 877 Austrian plants, and the New York Botanical Garden, 561 plants from Idaho and Montana. In addition, 852 specimens from the Galapagos Islands...