Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the early 1900s, traditional, redbrick first-year dormitories were built along the river. Now, many of those structures and part of Winthrop and Kirkland Houses...
Twice during this century, in the 1900s and in the 1950s, Harvard administrators seriously considered abolishing the program because of its financial burden and violent nature. They were unable to do so, not-so-ironically, because of the a obstinacy and ferocity of Harvard football fans...
...early 1900s, the only Harvard band was a group of banjo players who entertained the fans at home football games, according to records on file in the University archives...
Then, in the early 1900s, large numbers of Neanderthal skeletons were discovered, mainly in the Dordogne region of southern France. With these specimens in hand, scientists felt that they could better describe the physical appearance of a Neanderthal man, and the task of reconstructing one fell to noted French paleontologist Marcellin Boule...
Legend has it a Harvard coach came up with that idea in the 1900s but it was quickly banned across the nation for its "homicidal tendencies...