Word: originate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When we re-read books which interested us intensely a long time ago, we learn the origin of many of our "peculiar and original" ideas and prejudices. We, furthermore, realize the strong influence an absorbing book has on character and how dangerous it would be to ourselves, to the community and to the world at large, if we read the biographies of library vandals, ticket scalpers and horse thieves. --The Pennsylanian...
...Zoological Club. Review: "The Origin and Nature of Life." Mr. Lawrence Irving. "Circus Movements in a Bermuda Gastropol." Mr. D. E. Minnich, Zoological Museum...
...tending to destroy some of our internal loyalty between the Faculty and the student, or perhaps within these respective groups themselves. The principle of fair play is fortunately very prominent here in Cambridge. These articles which appear to have sprung up like mushrooms over night and without visible origin or reason, have a quality of feeling rather than of fairness. Whatever purpose or result they may have, we undergraduates should maintain the important consideration of loyalty and respect towards our professors, more worthy than the rash acceptance of uncertain insinuations. E. L. FLORANCE...
...true death would be to live in a conquered country--for me above all others, as then my art could not exist." The notion that a man of genius is too precious to fight is, to some minds, attractive and convincing. But it is specious. It has its origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity. --London Daily Mail...
...belief that many of the perplexing and disagreeable problems of eligibility take their origin from this multiplication of expensive coaching staffs, and extravagant paraphernalia. It is impossible to devise or fully enforce eligibility rules which will cover all cases of so-called professionalism unless there is a high spirit of honor among the candidates for teams. This spirit cannot be best fostered in an atmosphere of lavish expenditure, now considered necessary, owing to the nature of the rivalry above referred to. We should like to see Yale, in the near future, inaugurate a system of restraint upon such expenditures...