Word: ancient
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...with analogous customs recorded of the synod held in Rome in 499 A.D., and with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint and investigate the matter. It seems likely that information is easily available as to the date when organized cheering first appeared here, and as to the source...
...there is ample field for investigation of the remains already discovered. A year in Rome is not only of great value to the investigator of some technical subject who can deal directly with material inaccessible to him here, but also opens up new vistas to the general student of ancient history, or literature, or art. He has all the concrete originals before him: Rome and Pompeii are near at hand; and the recent striking excavations at Cyrene in Tripoli are not faraway...
Sweeping generalizations, slap-dash impressions and random notions calmly labelled "facts," all delivered pell-mell in a kind of word-storm, seriously impair the value of the article "Wagner--After the Noise of Battle," by H. K. Moderwell '12. For example, if anyone of the ancient objections to Wagner's voiceparts. has been amply refuted by the experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously...
...impressive custom, this wearing of the cap and gown in the last few weeks of undergraduate life, and everyone realizes it. It is only, therefore, as a reminder that we urge upon the Senior his individual duty to stand by his class and join in perpetuating an ancient tradition...
Last day for receiving theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1913 (except in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, and of History, Government, and Economics...