Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campus a local habitation and a name. It is an apostolic succession of great teachers. It is an aggregation a continuity of students perennially renewed in numbers maturing in a cocoon of lightly spun traditions. It is a network of laboratories and libraries where knowledge of the world and the individual is advanced and stored. It is a corporation which acquires and husbands a great endowment. All these things Harvard has been and more or less still is in such fashion that not only her sons but the general citizenry may think of her as a type. And especially...
Partly this vast and intricate equipment exists for research and scholarship, but it is chiefly arranged to the advantage of the students who in short generations use it and pass on. In the college and university world for a little while withdrawn from the instant demands of their times young men mature their minds and establish their bodies in healthful ways. At Harvard for almost three hundred years now they have been moving toward these ends in an atmosphere of traditions subtly and slowly changing and yet preserving something characteristic from the beginning. Once Harvard was small...
...method of discovery of the gorilla goes far to explain the erroneous notions as to variety of species which have grown up throughout the world, and explains too why science has waited for such an exhaustive study as this one by Mr. Coolidge to reduce the classification to one single species of two subspecies. The first specimen in any museum in the world was that in the Boston Society of Natural History and now in the Agassiz Museum. It was discovered by Savage, a missionary in the Gaboon, and sent in 1847 to Dr. Geoffries Wyman, then Professor...
...order that the claims of these specimens to special classification might be shown to be in error, an exhaustive study had to be made of virtually all the available material about gorillas extant throughout the world. It is such a study which Mr. Coolidge has just completed, and it is upon such a study that his findings rest...
...study is intended as a means of clarifying and bringing together the hitherto scattered findings of a host of the world's most outstanding investigators such as Richard Owen, Geoffroy St. Hilaire. Ales Hrdlicka. R. Selenka, Paul Matschie, L. Bolk, Lord Rothschild. Sir Arthur Keith, and D. G. Elliot...