Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for over two years. From the very first I've felt that TIME and its aim-"to keep intelligent men and women well-informed"-must be the creation of a genius. If Briton Hadden was that genius, my sincere condolences upon his death...
...fundamental assumption of Mr. Brock's article, of all its brethren which have crowded the public prints lately and indeed of the House Plan itself, is that what is wrong with Harvard College can be made right by the creation of new moulds into which to pour the malleable masses that now choke the educational machinery in Cambridge. Judging by undergraduate opposition to the House Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that...
...Architecture is further differentiated from the true professions. The architect creates his art to satisfy a definite need; the sculptor and painter to satisfy their own imaginations. There must be definite need for his creation before the architect can begin his work...
There are, in fact, two purposes for which such a collection may be used--the interest and amusement of the public, upon one hand; or the advancement of general culture by the creation of a new life interest among many of those who have the advantages of a college education and the training of experts in the science, upon the other hand. These two purposes are by no means entirely antagonistic, but one or the other should be primary. In consideration of the situation of our museum at a considerable distance from the center of population in this locality...
Into the welter of sensationalism aroused about a scientist who is reported to believe in "special creation". Professor Mather strikes a calm and refreshing note in his article in today's CRIMSON. His careful study of the paper which gave rise to the exciting story shows it to be little more than a reformulation of the mutation theory of evolution. It is not Man who is the "special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom...