Word: originators
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...history of the Greek Satyr play, of which the Cyclops is the only surviving example, in an interesting one. Both tragedy and comedy in Greece were the results of evolution, continuing over a long period of time. From its origin the theatre was closely connected with the worship of he god Dionysys; tragedy began with the narration and then the performance of the adventures of the god by a chorus of satyrs, who danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation...
There are in all thirty fables in the Talmud which have come down in Esop's Fables, until now they are well known folk-lore. In looking at the original source of the fables we find that they came first from India. Then they were taken up by the Greeks, including Esop, and by them handed down to the Romans. Of the 30 fables of the Talmud, 18 can be traced to Classic and Indian origin and 5 to the purely Indian. The remainder are of later growth and of purely Talmudic origin...
...were found by the photographic system in use--by which several pictures of the heavens are taken every night--and it must therefore have burst into its brilliancy within the limit of those two days. This limit no observatory could so accurately determine. Like all new stars the origin can only be explained by theories--one of which is that it is formed by a collision of heavenly bodies; another, that it is in the nature of an eruption perhaps of a volcanic nature...
...reading matter, the Faculty and especially the English Department figure rather prominently had has supplied a generous share of material for the paper. "The Origin of a Valentines Day" sounds a little like forced work. Poems to "divinities" of Cambridge restaurants might be left out without hurting the tone of the Lampoon...
...Sargent gave a lecture in the Fogg Museum last night on the origin, construction and practical uses of his recent invention, the inomotor. His remarks were illustrated by diagrams and the utility of the machine when used as a means of systematic exercise, and for a symmetrical development was shown by several performances on the machine by Mr. H. A. Higgins, a professional model. In speaking of the purpose and value of the inomotor, Dr. Sargent said in part...