Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Department is desirous of exerting its utmost efforts to further commerce. As our foreign commerce increases in volume we come more and more in competition with our rivals in the marts of the world. We have trade agents in foreign countries studying conditions and markets in the principal countries of the world which draw, or can draw, upon the products of our mills and factories. Their reports are disseminated throughout the country, as well as the reports of our consuls bearing upon commerce...
...College year an opportunity presents itself to hear men of great prominence and popularity, men whose forethought and ability have made them leaders in the affairs of nations. Last year we were especially fortunate in this respect-for fortune plays a large part in the securing of men with world-wide reputations. Tonight such an opportunity is at hand in the addresses by Mr. Choate and General Porter, who are to speak on the Hague Conference. Both speakers are authorities on their subject and should throw new light upon a topic far too little understood...
...national election, when the undergraduate world is stirred up scarcely less than the country at large, when a Hughes Club, a Taft Club, and a Democratic Club, are all making active preparations for a part in the campaign, our old stand-by the Political club is strangely inactive. Compared with previous years the club has accomplished but little this year, and now of all times when we need the advice of political leaders on questions of national and local importance, it is not rallying to the occasion. Much as some disapprove of the methods adopted, there is no doubt that...
Harvard's national character has been the subject of much profitable discussion, and from a graduate's standpoint her position in the country, and even in the world, is probably her greatest asset in a recent editorial the Bulletin pointed out our many national features--the faithful work of the Alumni Association in promoting the cause of the University throughout the land; "our intimate relations with the German and French universities, our scientific expeditions" to the remotest corners of the earth, and the wide territory from which our students are steadily drawn...
...McClure, D.D., of Chicago, Illinois, preached in Appleton Chapel last evening on the text "For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved...