Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the above it will be seen that Darwin had put his views upon paper 19 years before he received the essay of his friend Wallace and before the letter to Dr. Gray...
...advice as to its publication. Mr. Wallace confessed that he had been led to his opinions by a study of Malthus' "Doctrine of Population." Curiously enough, this theory was exactly the train of thought which Darwin himself had just been considering. He immediately took it to a great friend, a well-known historian, and told him of the strange coincidence. The friend advised him if there were any documents in proof of his own line of work at the time to publish them instantly. After much reflection and the conclusion that there were none to bring forward, Darwin suddenly remembered...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I see by a recent issue of the CRIMSON that you advocate the card system in the dormitories, by which a stranger entering a building for the first time is enabled to find a friend without the least difficulty. We all know the trouble and vexation which a man has to undergo at present in searching for the room of an acquaintance. We on the lower floor especially are continually bored by requests from utter strangers "to have the kindness to tell me where I can find Mr. So-and-So." Of course we are civil enough...
...with the second, the boxes. Even to college students a card directory would be a great convenience. We frequently wish to look a fellow up, whom we know rather well, have met on many occasions, but we haven't an idea where his room is. Or there is a friend whom we have often seen entering and issuing from a certain entry; he has often asked us up to his room No. -. But for the life of us, when we go to see him, we cannot remember what number he told us. Or again memory plays us false...
...State the distinction drawn by Hartmann in his Philosophic des Unbewussten between hunger on the one hand, and the tooth-ache or grief at the loss of a friend on the other...