Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whatever he undertook. He had, more-over, the training of a man of affaires. His practical experience as editor of a metropolitan journal and as writer of its leading articles on political and economic subjects, had given him a grasp of these subjects, and a hold upon the living world, which no amount of reading could have supplied. It had cultivated his powers of thinking and of presenting his thoughts in a clear, orderly, and convincing manner, and had exercised and developed his natural gifts--coolness of judgment, breadth of view, and temperance in expression...
...first act is laid in Salem in 1692. The second act comprises a scene on Boston Common, another at Keith's and the final one in the town court house. The plot centres about the two Jacobite exiles and their adventures in the New World during the witch craze. Although there are many modern allusions and local hits, the atmosphere and customs of the 17th century are consistently maintained. The play will be given early in May in Cambridge and Boston only...
...undergoes. The average Freshman is considered as having "an ill-seasoned body, a half-trained mind, jarred nerves, his first large sum of money, all manner of diverting temptations, and a profound sense of his own importance." In this interesting condition he is dropped into the large, free college world, where study seems to be optional, so far as he can hear, and where he meets "new and alluring arguments for vice as an expression of fully developed manhood." His untried, unsettled character is put to the test, subjected to a strain under which it must either take form...
Primarily, the work is a satire upon Norwegian character, bringing out its lack of personality and vacillating half-heartedness, but the poet went beyond the limits of his original conception, and gave to the world the picture of a misguided human soul, in which people of every nation may see themselves more or less prefigured...
...They should be really aids, and should not offer complete support; (2) they should not be used to detain in the shelter of the University young men who are over twenty-five years of age, and who should be ready for productive and responsible work out in the active world." To the latter rule one or two exceptions may be made...