Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses approved for concentration in geology may be taken in allied departments. Within the Division of Geology the four required courses may be so grouped as to stress any one of three phases of the broad subject; the evolution of the earth and its inhabitants; the nature and origin of rock formations, including ore and valuable constituents of the earth's crust; and the physical environment of life, including climate. Under such conditions concentration in geology coupled of course with the distribution of studies now required, offers an excellent training for citizenship and practical life in general...
Another lecture this morning of timely importance will be given by Dr. Hornbeck in Harvard 5 at 9 o'clock. His subject, "China: The Second Period of Conflict and Second Set of Treaties, 1844-1860", will be a study of the origin of the questions that now vex the Orient, and will constitute an invaluable commentary on the present situation. Other lectures of interest...
...Origin Of The Debts: "Early in the War, in order to minimize the dislocation of exchanges and for sound economic reasons the general principle was established that goods and services purchased by one ally in the country of another ally should be financed by the latter...
...agreed to apply this sound principle to our transactions with our associates. That is to say, we agreed to furnish them the dollars with which all their purchases in the United States should be consummated and, what is more, we agreed to lend them those dollars. This was the origin of these debts. But here is the fact that is not mentioned and which you gentlemen have apparently overlooked...
...name Berg is of Germanic and not of Jewish origin, and although there are some Jews named Berg, many of these have acquired the name by dropping the prefix Blum, Green and Rosen, but even with these included, they form only a small minority compared to the Christian Bergs...