Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British have assembled what is probably the world's most comprehensive collection of information. There Gibbon and Macaulay did their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique of biography, Carlyle studied the intricacies of the French Revolution (and complained of "my museum headache"). Young Charles Dickens came to study, Darwin to solidify his ideas for On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx gathered the wool which went into Das Kapital, most of which he wrote in the great, quiet, dome-capped Reading Room...
...greatest achievements of Kepler and Darwin, Ohm and Marie Curie fall within or near Dr. Lehman's age ranges. But Galileo was a partial exception: he seems to have done as well...
Former Crimson cartoonist Elliot L. Hoffman '51, now a student at Yale Law School, writes: "I advise you to issue a nationwide call to all Harvard-lovers to be on the look-out for this man. As a follower of Darwin, I am positive that some-where there has evolved this man in answer to Harvard's need for a new president. Because of his various and unique duties as the new president he is unlike other men in many ways and should not be hard to recognize...
...courses emphasize the reading of the great classics, as well as the best of scholarly commentaries. Students will learn their biology through Darwin's "Origin of Species," their psychology through the writings of Pavlov. Their physics will include the works of Galileo, Newton, and Von Helmholtz...
...tape-recorded and filed with the Museum of Natural History, in case anyone wants a playback 100 years from now. This week Berns spent about two hours lining up the guests for his next show: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Al Capp, Author Charles G. (The Next Million Years) Darwin, Eleanor Roosevelt. The guests will appear without fee, which is exactly what Berns has to spend on the show. On past programs, he has preserved the pop of bubble gum, statements from Grandma Moses and Sam Goldwyn, a conversation between London and Manhattan cabbies...