Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While discussing comparative scholarship in England and the United States. Nock said, "After all there is but one standard of fine scholarship and scholars worthy the name are the same the world over." He finds the scholastic attainments of the graduate students at Harvard very high and he remarked that his seminars with them are among the most pleasant feat- ures of his stay at Harvard...
...World-Wide Cooperation...
...Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
...University provides the House Plan--and the undergraduates accept it as the Senate "accepted" the invitation to the United States to join the World Court. Apparently it is felt that failure on the part of students to bring up objections to the Administration's projects would indicate a lack of independence...
...first act he weans his weak-kneed son from a dawning individuality to a minor post in his deadening little world of public success. But his memory has been prodded by the appearance of his school-days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood...