Word: originally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Modern Anthropology: Man's origin, antiquity, and development." Lecture. Dr. Ward. Upper Boylston, 7.30 p. m. Open to the public...
...before a large audience. He said: Anthropology is a new study which is by no means clear to the popular mind. It has as its object to give man a knowledge of himself. In early times men were disgraced as atheists who attempted investigations into the mysteries of their origin, and it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that enough facts had been obtained on this subject to found a system of knowledge. But then men began to make researches and new facts were discovered every year. In 1859 Darwin wrote his "Origin of Species," a work...
...February 18, the subject of the lecture will be "Modern Anthropology, its History, Method and Sphere." February 25, "Man's Origin, Antiquity and Development." March 5, "Anthropology and Sociology. March 12, "Benefits of Anthropological Study." The lectures will be made as clear and interesting as possible by means of charts, diagrams and blackboard drawings, and each person will be presented with a synopsis of each lecture...
...right of the former to use the water of the Watuppa ponds, the source of the Quequechan, is reviewed and criticized. The article is notable for the carefulness and clearness of statement. The second article, "Statutory Changes in Employers' Liability," by Marland C. Hobbs, examines the origin of the common law doctrine of liability of employers, and traces the modifications wrought upon this doctrine by recent legislation in England and in some of the States. Among other things of interest in the present number is a communication from ex-Governor Hoadly of Ohio upon the subject of conditional pardon...
...book of about 250 pages has been published entitled "Names and Places-Studies of Geographical and Topographical Nomenclature." The object of this book is to explain the origin and meaning of names given to prominent topographical and scenic features with especial reference to this country. Some field work has been done, chiefly in New England, in continuation of the surface geology and glacial deposits of Northeastern North America...