Word: loring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Harvard Folk-Lore Club held last evening, the following resolution was unanimously adopted...
THERE will be a meeting of the FolkLore Club tonight at 8 o'clock at Hastings 58. Men interested in the study of folk-lore are invited to be present...
...meeting of the Folk Lore Club, last night, the following officers were elected for next year: President, F. Russell, Gr.; vice-president, F. S. Arnold '98; secretary, J. R. Swanton...
Professor A. F. Chamberlain of Clark University lectured last evening in the Fogg Art Museum on the "Mythology and Folk-lore of Invention." The lecture was given under the auspices of the Harvard Folk-Lore Club...
...that the modern inventive activity of man has long been foreshadowed among primitive peoples. There has been something of mechanical skill in them all, and this instinct has in many cases been brought to a great degree of practical perfection. In the great majority of cases, in primitive folk-lore, the origin of all invention has been attributed directly to the God or Great Spirit. His very name has in many cases meant simply maker, shaper or in some cases even potter. He has been thought to have originated every single thing and men simply to have learned from...