Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...needs definition. By the word scholar, is not meant the young student, but the man who devotes himself to observation, recording, discovery; the man who is going to be a scholar as long as he lives. In the last fifty years there has been a great change in the world's conception of a scholar. A scholar used to occupy himself with philosophy, literature, or some kindred work, but now we see scholars in a great variety of fields. It makes no difference what the scholar's field of work is, the spirit of work, the habit of mind...
...scholar of the present day is not a bookworm, or a mere absorber of the learning of other people, but he is a pioneer in knowledge, an investigator capable of research. A scholar is not a recluse, and though he may be more or less withdrawn from the world, it is only to live on a grander scale, and with large hope of serving mankind...
...Influences of University Life." Ethics are the outcome of human experience. Ideals, which are closely allied to ethics, are in their very nature unattainable, yet their moral effect is undoubted. One of the great ethical evils of college education is the tendency to isolate from the rest of the world. This possibly occurs through the tendency of modern professors to specialize and concentrate their studies in one subject. Yet it is not a discouraging fact, when we realize the unbounded good that the world has acquired from the great University teachers...
...following partial list of subjects will serve to indicate the general character of this course: The Place of Christianity in the Religious History of the World; How Far are the Gospels Historical? What is Christianity? The Resurrection of Christ; Christianity and Science; Christianity and the Social Problem...
...England Magazine, Nineteenth Century, North American Review, Outing, Outlook, Photo-Miniature, Popular Astronomy, Popular Science Monthly, Public Opinion, Puck, Punch, Quarterly Journal of Economics, La Revue de Paris, Rider and Driver, Saturday Revue, Scientific American, Scientific American and supplement, Scribner's, Shooting and Fishing, Speaker, Spectator, Tatler, Technical World, Theatre, World's Work, Yachtsman, and World Today. In addition leading papers of the various colleges and universities in America may be found on file...