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...origin of Class Day, like most things of which we are proud at Harvard, dates back for many years. In 1754 the overseers of the college attempted to improve the elocution of students by requiring public recitations of dialogues, translated from Latin. Although this attempt failed in its purpose, it aroused among the under-graduates a desire for volunteer displays of oratory, which was the real cause of the festival now known as Class Day. The class of 1760 has the honor of starting the custom, although the list of annual orators does not begin until 1776. Ten years later...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Origin of Variations in Organism. Mr. E. A. Burt. Sever...
Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. The Origin of Variations in Organism. Mr. E. A. Burt. Sever...
...find where it comes from and how to meet it? It is natural that there should remain in us some of the qualities of that from which we evolved and since we believe man to be of animal origin we must have in us some of the brute qualities. After the animal stage came the the lone discipline of the savage, leaving the relics of the savage in us But no matter what origin we give for our temptations, our construction is always this the animal, the savage and then the man. This analysis may make it clearer what...
Geological Conference. Mr. W. J. Henderson, "Iron Ores of the United States"; Mr. G. S. Miller, "Notes on Acervularia"; Mr. H. Kennedy, "Theories of Origin of the Roxbury Conglomerate"; Mr. H. Landes, "Rock Collection in New Jersey." Geological Laboratory...