Word: originated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last the origin of the reported desire of the victorious Oxford crew to row the American college champions has been discovered. At the dinner given to the English eight by their college boating authorities, after the recent victory over Cambridge, some one authorized an American sporting writer who was present to arrange a race with the Harvard-Yale winner, provided the American crew would assume the challenge. "Bob" Cook, Yale's sagacious adviser in rowing matters, in commenting on this proposition, says, "This socalled official message from Oxford cannot be taken notice of by Yale until direct word is received...
...changes to a plume for the lord, or a pen for the learned it becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them carries us back to the papyrus that waved its slender stems over the little river of Syracuse...
Then again, as a representative form of amusement in which the Romans took great delight, and which was associated with their great religious festivals, the play is worth attention. A play was originally a rite, a fact which accounts for the extremely conventional character and frequent unreality of the earliest Greek drama. Our modern dramatic realism is a thing of very late development and, though a Roman play was in one sense far from being religious, it retained many traces of its ancient origin. The religion of the Greeks and Romans was almost entirely free from introspection, self-abasement...
...course will include lectures on special topics by Professors Goodwin, Lyon and Lanman; on the Origin of the Tribe, by Miss Alice C. Fletcher; on the Ancient Egyptians by Mrs. C. Stevenson; others to be announced...
Geological Conference. Papers: The Extent and Characteristics of the Trenton Limestone in the United States, Mr. C. Abbe; Concerning the Composition and Origin of Clays, Mr. G. E. Ladd. Geological Laboratory...