Word: originality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Modern Language Department has just published the seventh volume of its series, "Studies and Notes in Philology." It contains two theses, one on "Spanish Sibilants," by Dr. J. D. M. Ford, and the other on the origin of the Arthurian Round Table, by Dr. A. C. L. Brown...
...time. The old idea of an absolute creation of all life in the world lost hold during the upheaval of the French Revolution; and it was a French student who first suggested that man had risen to his present place by fitting himself to his surroundings. This was the origin of the theory afterward made so famous by Darwin. If it is true, then, that we can develop ourselves most fully by adaptation to surrounding conditions, it should be worth while for all who come to Cambridge to learn something about the nature of the neighboring country...
...everywhere demanded; and the tenants went regularly to Quebec to do homage to their lords. Finally the farming communities became so oppressed that the English government abolished the system, paying the seigneurs in full for their lands. The second of the monographs, by C. R. Fish, is on "The Origin of the Spoils System." It deals with the beginning and development of this system under President Jackson and his successors, and describes at length the efforts made by the Senate, in 1864, to check the power of the president. The object of the book is to give a clear idea...
...Geology of the Richmond Basin, in Virginia," and "The Geology of the Narragansett Basin" are the titles of two new books which Professor Shaler and Mr. J. B. Woodworth have collaborated in writing. Mr. Woodworth has also written a monograph on the structure and origin of the rocks in which the coals of Eastern Virginia are found. His report on "The Occurrence of Fossil Vertebrate Footprints in the Carboniferous Rocks of Massachusetts" is ready for publication...
...Talmud is written in classical Hebrew, which is made up of four different Jewish dialects and is smattered, here and there, with borrowed words of Latin, Greek and even Persian origin. Owing to this complex structure, an intelligent study of the book is extremely difficult. Yet the time and energy spent upon the translation of the Talmud is well worth while From it, information is obtained in regard to astronomy and botany, and we see the extensive knowledge which the Jewish rabbis and philosophers must have had in regard to our more modern sciences. But by far the greatest result...