Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...liberty of the employer. The betterment of the laboring man's condition which has been to a large degree attained, could not have been attained without trade-unionism. Still more beneficial has been the establishment of greater harmony between capital and labor, a superlative good in the industrial world...
Unions would strive to dominate the entire industrial world, to put a monopoly price on union labor, to limit production, and to dictate to employers. All this bodes no good to labor, rather constitutes a profound menace to American labor and American industry...
...enormous size of the new buildings which, it is expected, will cost considerably over $2,000,000, is due to the extension of the laboratory method of instruction, which demands much more room than formerly. They will be the finest buildings of their kind in the world, being constructed entirely of white Vermont marble, with the exception of their bases, which will be of pink Milford granite. It was originally intended to use limestone and brick, but later developments have resulted in the substitution of the marble and granite, which will greatly improve the appearance of the structures...
...Lecture Hall on "The Purpose and the Essential Teachings of Gotama Buddha." He was introduced by Professor C. R. Lanman of the Department of India Phiology. The Anagarika, who is now on his third visit to this country, told of the way Buddhism is misrepresented in the western world. He discountenanced the popular belief that Buddhism is a religion of pessimists, and explained how its concept came to the mind of Buddha. "Buddhism," he said, "is a sort of absolute psychology; it is the religion of absolute happiness." Its most important teaching is the doctrine of purity of body...
Anagarika Dharmapala of Calcutta, India, will speak in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, on "The Purpose and the Essential Teachings of Gotama Buddha." He will undertake to show the differentiations of the doctrines of Buddha from the other religions of the world...