Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aesthetic and artistic side of the question--are the ignorant judgments of undergraduates to be weighed against some of the finest architects in New England? This vignette of loveliness planted among the ancient elms in the Yard will be a true religious inspiration to all thinking souls. Its spacious porticos and massive columns will be an inducement to thousands of beauty lovers to come and jam its pews in search of the road to righteousness. It will be an basis of holiness in a desert of sin. Anthony Feathersione...
...were to be seen pounding along mountain roads in prolonged endurance tests; and the modern spiked shoe is stiil further removed from those vigorous days. The wonder of all this is that each year, each week, produces new records, the old achievements being displaced by reduced time, the most ancient of sports being improved upon with startling regularity...
...York, June 2 Within a few weeks of his receipt of the Pulitzer Prize in history. Professor Edward Channing '78, McLean professor of ancient and modern history at the University added another honor to his growing list when he was awarded an honorary degree by President Nicholas Murray Butler at Columbia's commencement exercises here today...
Forth from a heart too faltering A question . . . Strains the Ancient lips . . . I ask . . . Great God . . . how long will mankind mark thy choral strain With groans of agouizing pain . . . And turn to ashes thy parental song...
...here* a myth which, with or without origins in fact, is one of the most delectable that ever issued from the seven hills of Rome. It is a myth with no central events, being a nexus of personalities?a body of legend attaching to five extraordinary women and an ancient cardinal, whose life apart from and above modern Roman society and whose peculiar aptitudes, including the superlative one of appreciating one another, have earned them a title that falls sinister on western ears, the Cabala (clique...