Word: originator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...refusal of the degree will be regarded as an aristocratic protest against electing a man of humble origin, no matter what his talents, to the executive chair. It will also be regarded as a piece of partisan spite by all fair-minded citizens. - [New Haven Union...
...room of the new Harvard Medical School building on Friday last. It was confined to that locality, although considerable damage was done elsewhere by the heat and smoke. The woodwork of the lecture room, including the amphitheatre seats, was totally destroyed, and the ceilings and fresco work ruined. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and was probably caused by spontaneous combustion among painters' rages. The building was damaged nearly $2000. The loss will fall on Woodbury & Leighton, the contractors, who are fully insured...
...Francis A. Walker delivered the first of his series of lectures on "Land Tenure" last night in Sever 11. The lecture was devoted to a statement of the origin of rent and its influence on the distribution of wealth. Gen. Walker held, of course, to the regular theory of diminishing returns, and showed that rent depended on the excess of production of the land over the production of the worst land in cultivation; that is, of the land which paid no rent. "Rent," he said, "arises from the fact of the varying degrees of production mutually contributing to the same...
...Gray, in company with Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, reviews, in the April number of the American Journal of Science, Dr. Candolle's "Origin of Cultivated Plants," with the result of claiming more indigenous plants for America than the Swiss botanist allows. A second article is promised in the next number...
...what is called co-education, or education of both sexes in the same rooms, as exists here, perhaps even as strong as that which burns so fiercely in the breast of Dr. Dix. We should not be surprised even to learn that this dislike had as high an origin. We believe there are among the Boston friends of the movement many who enjoy that greatest of earthly luxuries, the luxury of knowing that one's own views on any subject are simply an embodiment of the Divine will. - [N. Y. Post...