Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Last Chapter of 'Smith's Decline and Fall of the World" suffers from an excess of imagination. Occasionally one finds vivid flashes, such as the incident of the last man and woman, but, as a whole, the conception is chaotic. Mr. Alken's sonnet, with its dramatic, almost conversational tone, is more novel than thoroughly effective. But the impression that it leaves of the rapscallion Villon is clear...
...attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale and President Wilson of Princeton, all of whom give the semi-professional baseball player unquestioned...
...into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students, or to the outside world that is denied the monopoly we enjoy as college men, it may be excusable to keep up the tradition that there is some special merit in a bachelor's degree. But between ourselves in the Intercollegiate Civic League, what, pray, is there about our college training, our four years of fraternity...
...added that the chief value of a Fichte memorial does not lie in the reference to the past, but in the importance for present day thought. It is evident that after some decades of philosophical indifference, a new strong philosophical movement has set in all over the world and that its strength lies in a revival of Fichte's ethical idealism. It is most fortunate, therefore, that Professor Julius Goebel, who is equally interested in the historical and philosophical aspects of Fichte, will deliver the chief oration. HUGO MUNSTERBERG
...clock in Appleton Chapel and will be conducted by the Rev. Professor E. C. Moore, D.D., of Cambridge, preacher to the University. The musical programme will be as follows: "Almighty God," Schubert; "He forgiveth all thy sins," Garrett; "Refrain thy voice," from the oratorio "The Light of the World," Sullivan. The soloist will be Mr. George J. Parker...