Word: originally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generation ago a student looked upon his room as his home. He often stayed in the same place three or four years. He took an interest in making that room comfortable and attractive. He hung the walls with signs whose origin he was not always willing to reveal. He covered his sofa with cushions which he maintained were made by lovely girls of his acquaintance...
...Origin of Life", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture room...
...Origin of Life", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture room...
...Charles Robert Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The entire first edition (1,250 copies) was sold by the next afternoon...
Where this theory that the colleges are going to the demnition bow-wows arose, no one knows. Neither can anyone mark with assurance the origin of its counterpoint. But that both have been overdone, anyone connected with any college will tell you. Of course, there is something wrong with the colleges and the undergraduates; if there were not, they would not be normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal...