Word: darwinian
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...once the only means of integrating ideas drawn from various fields. Then, a group of original men in Lowell House conceived the idea of a "symposium," consisting of student impersonations of great men of the past. In this way it was possible, for example, to portray the repercussions of Darwinian thought on economics, philosophy, literature, and religion of the nineteenth century. Last week a similar project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control of the Party in Russia...
Described as "a new experiment in inter-field study and discussion," an undergraduate symposium on the repercussions of the Darwinian theory will be presented tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Seven Lowell House students will take the parts of typical and outstanding characters of the nineteenth century presenting the reactions of biologists, economists, theologians, historians, and philosophers, to the Darwinian hypotheses...
...problem of too narrow fields of concentration such schemes as the Lowell House symposium provide a partial solution. Around the subject of Darwinian theory have been gathered scientists, historians, theologians, economists, and philosophers. By arranging for each student to present the ideas of some influential or typical thinker of the 1850's, everyone participating will presumably gain the viewpoint of all the rest. If such a program can be built about this subject, other equally valuable symposia could be held on the American Civil War, for example, or on the political repercussions of the industrial revolution. Much will depend...
...will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character. Unlike most lengthy British character studies, the novel does not report the rigors of Tony's adolescent schooldays. He appears to have sprung full-born into a family in which the father deified Darwinian Science while the mother deified Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the midst of all the Edwardian amenities of an upperclass household, Tony came to the conclusion that neither his father nor mother was totally right or wrong, "but if you went to life with all your senses open, with your body...
...Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator of a Mirakle for the disarming young people...