Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds of many it is a moot question as to what is the origin of the race of Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands and a race now extinct. Some claim that they are descended from the Berbers of Northern Africa, but many on the other hand advance the theory that they are related to the American Indians," said Lt. Col. Charles Wellington Furlong in commenting upon that most interesting conjecture concerning the relationship between the Central American Indians and, certain tribes of Africa. Col. Furlong, who is a noted explorer and author, was a member...
...Christendom and its collective worship. The State represents the purpose of civilized man to live happily and helpfully together in organized society. The University represents man's inborn love of truth, his persistent curiosity, which has given rise to all science, and his dominating idealism which is the origin of all literature and of all philosophy...
...Origin of Life" will be discussed from three angles this evening at the science symposium which begins at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The three branches of the subject to be treated are: that of astronomy, "Life Throughout the Universe"; biology, "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life"; and religion, "Life and Spirit...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
...general subject of the first symposium will be "The Origin of Life", and each professor will consider a certain special aspect of the subject. Professor Shapley is to discuss "Life throughout the Universe"; Professor Jeffrey will speak on "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life", and Professor Lake will treat "Life and Spirit...