Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pity of it all is that the course has or should have considerable interest. Huxley and Darwin are chiefly considered. Their theories are still of present concern. It is true as well that the efforts of Professor Lewis to force his widely dissociated materials into a semblance of form are as attractive as any intellectual katzenjammer can be. But the reading assignments are lengthy, the quizzes frequent, and the standards high enough to exclude the Man-without-a-Purpose. It is this person's conviction that at some past day a misguided confidential reviewer shouted from the house-tops that...
...Edward Barrett Jr. 154 * Edward Trumbull Batchelder 144 * Reginald Henry Phelps 105 * Freeman Lewis 97 * William McKee Dunn 95 Edward Carl Dieckerhoff 94 Edwin Percy Gunn 94 Alba Burnham Martin II 86 Henry Philip Minis 86 Herbert Tenney Holbrook 81 William Merwin Randol 75 John Boardman Page 66 Charles Darwin Graham 65 Charles Stuart Ross 62 CLASS COMMITTEE * Guy Constant Holbrook Jr. 156 * Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr. 142 * Bernard Barnes 137 * William Potter Lage 122 * Thomas Frothingham Mason 115 * Howard Theodore Wenner 109 Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey 103 Eliot Thwing Putnam Jr. 98 Robert Franklin Walker Smith 85 Morris Ruggles Brownell...
...Charles Darwin Graham, of New York City...
...ancient and the present relations of man. This is done in Anthropology A without requiring too much detail which would be boring as well as more difficult. On the whole, the lectures are interesting and even amusing to some, while the reading includes selections from such authorities as Darwin and Neman, both of which are well worth while and not too technical...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...