Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even old Sir Edward cannot remember back to the time when the evolution process itself was attacked by reputable scientists. However, smoke from the old battle of Lamarckism v. Natural Selection has not yet finally cleared. Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory. Natural Selection holds that accidental variations which happen to be favorable to the organism will be preserved by the survival of the fittest. Lamarckism is in general disrepute for the simple reason that evidence...
Last week Dr. Poulton brought into court certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...
...Foundation declined 920 applications for aid. ("The Foundation does not make gifts or loans to individuals, or finance patents or altruistic movements involving private profit, or contribute to the building and maintenance of churches, hospitals, or other local institutions, or support campaigns to influence public opinion on any social or political questions...
...After profits had fallen from plus $1,277,000 in 1929 to minus $203,000 in 1932, Depression might have conquered the company forever but for the clever maneuvers of young George Strohmeyer. This tall, red-haired young man with a fondness for dogs and fishing joined Childs in 1927 as an accountant, and was assistant treasurer when the shake-up came. Transferred to real-estate supervision, he cut rent costs $500,000 by abandoning bad property, persuading landlords that it would be less unprofitable to reduce Childs rent than to force the company into bankruptcy. In 1933 George Strohmeyer...
...more satisfactory than if the Council had preserved an attitude of magnificent if puerile independence. For example, a report of last year on intra-mural athletics resulted, within a month, in a complete change in the managing of these contests--a change from which we hope you will profit when you become members of the Houses. The Tutoring School report of last year opened the eyes of many members of the faculty to the fact that the schools were a menace to the type of education which Harvard Hopes to give...