Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Charles Lyell for publication. Lyell and Hooker agreed to publish it only on condition that he (Darwin) would at the same time give to the public the memoirs that they had for so many years endeavored to persuade him to publish, and which they had perused as far back as 1844. The result was, that the essays of Darwin and Wallace were presented, under one title, before the Linnean Society on June...
...following is taken from the introduction of the fifth edition of the "Origin of Species," 1859: "My work is now nearly finished; but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is far from strong, I have more especially been induced to do this as Mr. Wallace, who is now studying the natural history of the Malay Archipelago, has arrived at almost the same general conclusions that I have on the origin of species. In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject with a request that I would forward...
...hardly need be said that "Songs of Harvard" will be subjected to a most thorough revision, and that all future editions of the work will be freed, so far as is possible, from the mistakes which its publishers now feel to be its only blemishes...
...rest of the class and also to the whole university to know that the apparent indifference displayed during the early part of the term has been thrown off and that an earnest attempt will after all be made to make amends for last year's freshman defeat. Thus far no definite course of work has been laid out, and for the present the men training for in field positions are at work throwing and catching, in the Lincoln rink, from four till five o'clock each afternoon. The rest of the work consists of a half hour...
...heavy man, weighing over 200 pounds, and is all muscle. He will play somewhere in the out-field. As for the battery, Stagg and Dann are ready to repeat the up-hill work they accomplished a year ago, if it should be necessary. Stagg is getting a reputation far beyond the limits of college circles, and now is considered by many as the finest pitcher that any college has ever been fortunate enough to possess. The old trouble which has affected Yale very much in times gone by, that of getting "rattled," seems to have disappeared with most...