Word: fittest
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...philosophy of evolution concerns a question of progress. What we wish is that Darwinism shall account not merely of the survival of the fittest, but also for the arrival of the fittest, and that it has not given us yet. Asa Gray said years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany...
...Survival of the Fittest" is rather an ill chosen title for a story told with a great deal of life and spirit. The sketch of a man with ambition but "without backbone" has a good deal that is interesting, though it may well be questioned whether "invertebrate" ambition may be properly called ambition...
...first attempt at daily journalism was made simultaneously at Harvard and Yale. The "Echo," started in 1879, was the first Harvard daily. Then in 1882, came the "Herald," and in the struggle for the "survival of the fittest," the "Echo died. In 1883 the "Herald" was consolidated with the "Crimson," and was known as the "Herald-Crimson" until the spring of 1884, when it became "THE DAILY CRIMSON...
...wishes of the majority of the class should be respected, and all the officers when elected, unconditionally supported by every member of the class. As it has now become customary for the three senior societies to take no steps towards influencing the elections, we have no doubt that the fittest men for the positions, irrespective of outside considerations, will be elected...
...subjects beside the old in a fair competition." "The higher the value which one sets on Greek and Latin as means of culture, the firmer must be his belief in the permanence of those studies when they cease to be artificially protected. In education, as elsewhere, it is the fittest that survives...