Word: originally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first to break away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...
...Hewes, Harvard '90, lately read a paper on "The Origin of Sensation of Muscular Tissue" before Dr. Bowditch's class in Physiology at the Medical School...
...discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental origin of the art of music...
...down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness. Any single sound having distinct pitch we shall call a Note, without distinct pitch a Noise. The physical cause of a note is a regularly periodic air vibration, irregular vibration causing noise. To this difference in their origin is to be referred the aesthetic superiority of notes to noises. The pitch of a note is higher as the vibration causing it is faster. The lowest pitch is produced by about 16 vibrations per second, the highest by about 40,000. In the next lecture we shall study the forms...
...seems to be settled that before next year changes will be made in the English requirements, which will directly affect candidates for honors in that department. At present such a candidate has to have (1) a scientific knowledge of the origin and development of the English Language and Literature. (2) a general acquaintance with English Literature. (3) Proficiency in English Composition. Although no hard and fast rules have been made as to these requirements, it is pretty well understood that a candidate, in selecting the six full courses required for honors, must bear in mind the object of the department...