Word: givings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...culture-hero has been very strong. These heroes have taught everything from the highest arts to the meanest employment's. Other tribes have attributed almost all inventions to imitation from animals. Thus spinning has been learned from spiders and building from birds. Large numbers of primitive peoples give women credit for a large share of invention. Food-bringing, pottery, the beginnings of agriculture and all domestic arts have been attributed to women. From primitive times invention has always gone hand-in hand with freedom. It is perhaps because of this that men by invention have broken away from evolution...
...club is not a college organization, though a number of college men are members. The purpose of the organization has been in the first place to give its members an opportunity for reading orchestral music. In addition, however, to these regular meetings or rehearsals, the orchestra has given numerous informal concerts...
During last summer the floor of the cage in the Carey Building was made over and improved. The ground in the cage has before always been soft and dusty, but now it is hoped that it has been improved, by the addition of street scrapings, which will give a harder floor. It is as yet undecided whether or not pipes will be put in to heat the room, but if it is determined on, the pipes will be put in place before the nine begins indoor practice in the cage...
...Pierial Sodality will give a concert this evening in Union Hall, Boston. Miss Rogers, vocalist will assist at the concert. The programme will be as follows...
Tonight at eight o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, Professor Andrew F. Chamberlain, of Clark University, will give a lecture on "The Mythology and Folk-Lore of Invention." The lecture is given under the auspices of the Harvard Folk Lore Club...