Word: origin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are, also, several clubs of Eliot House origin. The History Club holds meetings, open to all students, whenever it is possible to procure an authority on some subject of current interest. The Photographic Club has its dark room in the basement. Also, of course, organizations beside those peculiar to Eliot House meet from time to time in the Common rooms. The annual dances, although few in number, have been great successes, especially those coming after the Yale (or Princeton) football games and the annual Spring Dance...
Ever a provoking law unto himself, Genius Einstein switched over to the theme that most Jews in Germany "during the past 20 years . . . slavishly copied the still foreign-to-them modes of the life of the German people with the sole purpose of making themselves forget their Jewish origin...
...champion of their cause is Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus. "Goody," he states, "is the authentic Harvard epithet, used to describe those who tidy Harvard studies from the time of the founding of the College. Its origin is in the English appellation, 'Good-wife,' and as applied to female domestics it is peculiar to Harvard among universities in this land...
...hand-printed a newspaper made up from the big news stories of the Revolutionary War. Headlines: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED; WASHINGTON CAPTURES PRINCETON; CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS AT YORKTOWN. A geography class made a great map of the world, pinned the day's news stories on their points of origin...
...Mitchell lays about him with such infectious vigor that one almost forgets that other archeologists who are interested in the cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan...