Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Nations deal with each other in channels edited by a long period of customs which have become what we know as the system of diplomacy. As the interests of the United States as a world power are enormous, and since their rights and privileges create business of all kinds, the ambassador is the most important minister of his country. He is considered to be equal to the king of the country which he represents, and in the United States he outranks all men but the president...
Last spiring Dr. Chapman, then leader of evangelistic campaigns in many cities in the United States and Canada, joined forces with Mr. Alexander, the gospel singer, in order to conduct revival meetings throughout the world. The first work carried on by the united evangelists and gospel singers was a five weeks' campaign in Philadelphia, and since then the combined work has been known as the Chapman-Alexander Simultaneous Mission. During the past few weeks in Boston, Simultaneous meetings have been held in 25 different centres...
...introduction will treat of the four great authors, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe and their relations to the "World Literature." Then the legend of Faust will be discussed, beginning with its fore-runners, the old Christian and the medieval legends, and Calderon's "Wonder-working Magician." Some time is to be devoted to the medieval poems and the middle low German dramas. The next chapters will treat of the historical Faust and the popular traditions of the 16th and 17th centuries in international literature. Then will follow a discussion of Marlow's Dr. Faustus and the development of the Faust...
...soldiers, and was never known to kill a woman or child under any conditions. I remember when I was a doctor at Pine Ridge, the soldiers disarming the whole reservation and shooting down the defenceless Indians and afterwards chasing and killing the women. Human nature is the same the world over. We have been barbaric, we have been cruel, but you take a poor negro, cover him with oil and burn him at the stake. We have not done this for a hundred years, and yet you are a civilized people...
...Junior class ever seems to succeed in making preliminary arrangements for the Union dance without being put to considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...