Word: worldly
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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. With J. H. van't Hoff, who received the degree of LL.D., from Harvard in 1901, Ostwald founded in 1887 the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, and in 1901 the Annalen der Naturphilosophie. In 1904 he gave the Faraday Lecture before the Royal Society. He has been a prolific...
Edward Leighton Fanshawe '07 of New York, died of erysipelas last Friday at Santa Barbara, Cal., while on a trip around the world with three friends. He received a slight injury at sea which later caused his death...
...satisfied to make the Union a mere meeting place for mass meetings, class smokers, debating clubs, committees and various other bodies. We wished to make it the great "hearth-stone of Harvard," a great centralizing force which should form all the varied activities and interests of our college world...
...Cambridge and have a common foundation of data obtained from experience and personal contact, let us not befog the discussion with too much preliminary analysis of classes, clubs and athletics and other elements that are interwoven in the sum total of elements which go to make Harvard's world; and let us not introduce into this discussion any hasty argument on the qualifications which of course exist upon every general statement that may be made. If we are to be heroic, we must, first of all be frank...
Much there may be in the order of the universe which still remains baffling and mysterious much postponement of knowledge in God's education of the human race; but what a step is taken towards sanity and self-control and peace of mind when one looks, upon the world as the scene of spiritual intention and desire, which give to its perplexing incidents their unity and worth. The religious life is like those Egyptian temples which in their outer courts looked through great free vistas to the fertile fields and the deep blue sky; but as the worshipers sought...