Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meaning of the term. We should regard a work of art original when it produces an impression of a living source. What really shows art is intensity of imagination on the part of the poet, which makes us feel upon opening the book that we are in a different world and that we have a live interest in the people and affairs of that world. This has been attained by many writers at various times, but it is prevalent in the Iliad through all the ordinary acts of life. Thus given this fiery intensity of imagination and Homeric style...
...World's Work--"American Immigration at High Tide...
...little ground for comparison of the two teams at present, every indication points to a victory for the University team by a large martin. In the Pennsylvania relay carnival last. Saturday A. H. Shaw of Dartmouth won the 120 yard hurdles in 15 2-5 seconds, thus equalling the world's record for this event made by A. C. Kraenzlein of Pennsylvania in 1899. No other Dartmouth men won places in the special events. In the two-mile relay race between Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia, Dartmouth secured second place with Columbia first. The Dartmouth team was made...
...current number of the Monthly, the high standard which the present board of editors has set is well maintained. Between Mr. Lewis's "Harvard Men and the Outside World" (a pica for a more general interest in political and social movements), the reader is presented with a variety of stories, poems, and critical essays, some of which are distinctly above the average of undergraduate writing, and all of which are interesting...
...stories, "The Coward," by E. B. Sheldon '08, seems to the reviewer the most successful. The story of a reformed "sport" who becomes a clergyman, and ultimately, through fear of his inability to resist the attractions of the world, gives up everything, even love, to enter a religious order, is not by any means easy to handle, and the avoidance of sentimentality on the one hand and melodrama on the other deserves the highest praise. The dialogue, also, is handled with admirable directness and naturalness, and the characterization of the principal figures is excellent. Something of the same admirable restraint...