Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ramanathan has made a deep study of the different creeds of the world, and has written numerous commentaries on the Christian Scriptures. It was through these commentaries that Mr. M. H. Phelps, Yale '76, who is interested in the comparative study of religions, heard of Mr. Ramanathan, and induced him to visit this country to interpret to Americans his ideas on the unity of faith...
...World To-day--"Seeing Nature with Both Eyes," by F. W. Coburn...
Professor Ostwald is regarded as one of the founders of the modern science of physical chemistry; and he has achieved a position of the highest rank in the scientific world, not only as an investigator and thinker, but also as a reformer, organizer, and teacher in the field of natural science. In recent years he has extended his studies to the broad field of the philosophy of science, a subject to which two of his best-known works are devoted...
...present time. It is possible then to construct a language the vocabulary of which will already be partly understood. The present difficulty is to select one language and to make it universal. By means of such a language travellers may converse with transportation officials in any part of the world, and scientists will use the system in their international congresses...
...last corporation meeting on Oct. 16, when Harlan D. Beach, M. A. F. R. G. S. of the class of '78 was appointed professor of the Theory and Practice of Missions and Instructor in the Chinese Language and Literature. Mr. Beach is to spend every third year in a world tour of the mission fields...