Word: originators
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this mural has been of great concern to me all along. If I choose a title for a painting of mine, I do not want this title to be too definite a description or definition of the picture. The title should merely support what is visually expressed. The origin of the design which you see on the wall now and of a series of similar recent paintings was the phenomenon of plant growth in spring. The mysterious appearance of plant forms and flowers in a new green world. A process that can be registered only in time intervals...
This variegated collection owes its origin to Louis Agassiz, the renowned Harvard scientist, who migrated from Italy in 1847 and brought his zoological specimens with him. He first stored them in a shanty by the Charles, near the present site of Anderson Bridge, but by 1860 had collected enough funds from the Massachusetts Assembly, the University, and friends to build on wing of the present University Museum. The Zoological Museum, which has occupied that wing ever since, has ranked among the top zoological exhibits in the world. Fifteen rooms of stuffed and skeletoned animals comprise the public display; most...
...doctors who never tire of arguing about the age and origin of diseases, a Washington orthopedist rattled some old bones last week. Exhibited to the District of Columbia Medical Society was a collection of human bones culled with care from the Smithsonian Institution's vast collection by Orthopedist William J. Tobin. Beside each bone was an X-ray diagnosis of what ailed the long-dead patient...
...subject will be "A theory of the Origin of Language." Johnnesson's latest book, and his first published in English, bears the same title...
Actually Tech's connection with non-scientific study dates to its origin, but not since the 1930's and the presidency of Karl Compton did M.I.T.'s courtship with higher non-scientific learning begin in earnest...