Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...origin of this paradoxical animal remains a mystery. Perhaps it originated from one of those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward...
...Alumni Weekly in regard to Yale football, "and is essentially the lack of a wining system". In the popular mind of the world's greatest demagogue, the sporting writer of today, "system" is a word considered indigenous only to Harvard, yet most of the winning Harvard plays found their origin in the old "Yale system" which won its namos with customary regularity for over a decade. Most of the vertabrae in the backbone of this system were made up of the imperial Yale triumvirate of captain, coach, and Walter Camp. But this inter-working continuity and ever-working salubrity...
Professor Henrl Pirenne, rector of the University of Ghent, delivered yesterday afternoon the last of his series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe". He continued his account of the use of the walled towns by explaining the part played by the "bourgeois" class in the city life...
Professor Henri Pirenne will deliver the last of his series of lectures on "The Origin of Cities in Western Europe" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. He will speak entirely in French...
...class of men as that period which resulted from the amalgamation of the old and the new, received the name of 'burgus' from which the term 'bourgeoisie' is derived. At this point we may rightfully say that the true origin of the cities in the Middle Ages was in the suburbs...