1 The Class of 1984 included Loretta Lynch, who would later become the first African-American woman to be Attorney General of the United States. 2  In 1990, Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Old English cancer spreading sore, cancer (also canceradl), from Latin cancer a crab, later, malignant tumor, from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- to be hard (like the shell of a crab); cf.
Origin of the word cancer. The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who is considered the âFather of Medicine.â Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors.he origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who is considered the âFather of Medicine.â Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors.