Word: originator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday's Herald contained an interview with Colonel Bancroft on the origin of the so-called Bancroft stroke and its similarity to the stroke rowed this year...
...first number of the second volume of the Harvard Law Review, which was issued yesterday, contains the opening part of the "History of Assumpsit," by Professor J. B. Ames. The writer treats of "Express Assumpsit" and examines the various theories which have been formed to explain the origin of the doctrine of "consideration" as a part of the law of contracts. The work is very carefully done. Mr. Schofield contributes a paper on the "Principle in Lumley vs. Gye and its Application." The article is a critical examination in its several aspects of the point decided in this noted English...
...History courses are very slight: for example, take History 13, all that we can find out about this course is what is in the catalogue,- "History 13, Constitutional and Political History of the United States (1783-1861) Tu. Th. Sat.," or "History 5, the conflict of Christianity with Paganism, Origin and Development of the Roman Primacy to its alliance with the Holy Roman Empire...
...which is divided into wheel-made and hand-made specimens, includes a number of vases, amphorae, and lamps from Alambra, a village near the ancient town of Idalium. In addition to these, there are a number of terra cotta heads and masks, some of Greek and others of Pheanician origin. The decorations on all these potteries are incised and not painted on the surface, thus showing that they belong to some pre-historic...
...last evening in Sever 11, said that the number of men actually engaged in literature as a profession in the United States was small, and, even with the addition of the journalists, amounted to only thirteen thousand. This is not remarkable, as the profession of literature is of recent origin, and only the vast extension of printing in the last forty years has rendered it possible. Every man must choose his occupation with reference to his own natural gifts. If wealth is the only object of life, not literature but all the professions must be ruled out. Enormous gains...