Word: originated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin and development of gilds," Professor Usher, Widener...
...University hockey squad, which began this week, has been featured by special attention to the rules going into effect for the first time this season. They will make the game faster and will put a premium on speed and ability rather than mere power, a tendency which finds its origin in the rules governing Canadian hockey...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has selected a Provencal Miracle Play for its sixth annual production of a play dealing with the nativity of Christ. This old French piece was translated especially for the Club by D. F. Robinson '26. Last year the presentation was of Spanish origin. Miracle plays are common throughout Europe: but in the United States their production is rare. The Dramatic Club instituted the custom of presenting a Miracle play six years ago, and the success of the enterprise, as well as the interest shown, has led to its continuance...
This was long after he had written the Origin of Species. Darwin was born in 1809. He went to Shrewsbury School, then Edinburgh, then Cambridge. He was regarded during this period as an ineffectual student, a boy of vague intents, a sporting blood. He first planned on medicine for a career, then thought of entering the ministry. But something happened that changed his life and the history of the world. A Captain (later Admiral) Fitz-Roy was leaving England to tour the world in a boat called The Beagle. Darwin wanted to go. His father forbade the trip provisionally...
...distinguished dinner parties which annoyed Charles Darwin. He soon stopped going to them and spent the next four years studying species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication he had had no allies in his opinions. Afterward he found a few (notably Thomas Huxley, Asa Gray, Alfred Russell Wallace, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell), but most of the civilized world thought the book was a fairy tale and the author a misguided fool...