Word: 12th
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Along with the squash, hockey, and track teams, two Harvard distance runners helped to make last week-end one of the most successful athletic ventures of the winter season. In Washington D.C. Erich Segal's 12th place finish in a nationwide marathon won him a National A.A.U. medal. Segal is a teaching fellow in general education...
During the previous season at Shochem, in 1960, the archaeologists reconstructed a portion of the courtyard of the temple and restored the great sacred pillar to the spot where it stood as late as the 12th century B.C. in front of the temple. However there was no reason to believe that this place in the courtyard was the city's earlier sacred area...
...Innocent. In medieval France, painters were so ignorant of what a child was that they had no idea how to paint him. A 12th century miniature depicting the New Testament scene in which Jesus says, "Suffer little children ... to come unto me," shows Jesus surrounded by eight small men; newborn infants were commonly painted with the musculature of grownups, their age indicated only by their size. The reason, says Scholar Aries, is that during the Middle Ages, and for a long time afterward among the lower classes, children were thrown into the adult world...
...diminutive Bobby Mack. Until a few weeks ago Mack had been regarded as unbeatable in eastern competition, but he placed behind Hamlin in the Big Three race, and behind Hamlin and five others in the Heps. Another Ivy Leagure competitor who ran well was Cornell's Beard who placed 12th...
...freshman meet Harvard's Walt Hawlett finished 12th after losing fifth place because of taking a wrong turn...