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Word: worldly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...limited duty and the larger duty discloses itself just beyond. But what is the way of life that opens thus from door to door? It is nothing other than religion, for it is the view which opens through the door of religion that gives a meaning to the world, that sets one in a rational universe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/19/1905 | See Source »

...mental qualities developed by your ancestors' contest with man and taming of nature, as well as the social equality which, in this country, requires the professional man to "kow-two" to no one. You lack neither stimulus nor opportunity; you are radiant with the success of modern materialism. The world is the mining engineer's oyster, to be opened with the weapon of skilled intelligence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Rickard on Mining Engineering | 6/3/1905 | See Source »

...Foote '06, stroke, prepared for college at Ithaca High School. In his Freshman year he stroked his class crew, which holds the world's record for two miles for a college freshman crew. Last year he stroked the university four-oar boat. Age, 20; height, 6 ft.; weight, 165 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Crew Statistics | 5/27/1905 | See Source »

...Crothers began by showing that every thinking man at some time comes to realize that he is in an infinite world. Then he brought out the idea that the field of immortality is not fixed; it involves the thought of an untravelled world, and is one phase of the thought of infinity. An important point which Dr. Crothers supported by a long chain of reasoning was that a man's realization that there is something beyond the limits of his understanding leads him to a vague conception of immortality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INGERSOLL LECTURE | 5/18/1905 | See Source »

Professor Ostwald is well fitted to give courses on these subjects, as he is considered one of the founders of the modern science of physical chemistry, and has achieved a position of the highest rank in the scientific world as a teacher in the field of natural science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Courses to be Given by Prof. Ostwald | 5/13/1905 | See Source »

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