Word: origin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book good or bad. It is now hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value to the reflective student, will be found - especially in its examination into the origin of the English novel, and into the growth of realism, - of fresh interest to the general reader. The work is a credit to Harvard scholarship...
...rumor about a new dormitory for Harvard, which has been published in many papers, is entirely without foundation. It owes its origin to the Hastings bequest, which was made several years ago, with the stipulation that not more than $250,000 of that bequest should be expended on some new building. That building is not necessarily to be a dormitory, and morever the funds from the bequest will not be available for some time to come...
...which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated the expression 'All England for a Horse'?" Someone of a kindly spirit and better knowledge of Shakespeare, has appended to the card the correct quotation and its source. One may usually be expected to judge that the questioner is especially interested in the subject on which his query is made...
...current number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to the present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect...
...Wadsworth lectures on "The Origin of Rocks" in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 2 P. M. today...