Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ancestor Louis is commonly recognized as the greatest professor the University ever had in zoology. As the foremost figure in American science Louis bitterly fought the ideas which Darwin gave to the world about the evolution of man from...
...guest of honor and principal speaker the symposium featered George R. Agassiz '84, a past president of the Board of Overseers. Descended from a line of celebrated scientists, Agassiz was well qualified to talk on the contributions to the study of Darwin's theory by his father Alexander '55 and his grandfather Louis...
...long ago as 1931, Britain's Physicist Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of the late Charles Darwin, compared physics to "a mother who has given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to hap pen next." More closely now than ever does physics resemble a bewildered and bewildering Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe...
...modern science." TIME apparently substantiates this by listing the books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years of mathematics, four years of languages...
Onetime Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real...