Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long delayed Crimson triumph. Last year a brilliant but poorly balanced Harvard team came within a third of a point of defeating the powerful Eli; and this year, although still rated as the underdogs, the University track men seem nearer than ever to their goal of victory over their ancient rivals...
...seen his brother grow dull-eyed and prosaic in the business, his father has died while in the harness, and his ancient grandfather still lives for the mills...
...always and stove pipe hats have finally furnished a clue to the age of the china plate fragments discovered Friday afternoon in the steard pipe ditch being constructed near University Hall. More than a bushed of broken 'ups, plates, and bowls were taken out of this mine of ancient University plate accidentaly unearthed by the operations of a steam shoved. The plate having been rescued from eternal oblivion by the enthusiastic and opportune intervention of President Lowell has been carefully scrutinized by Assistant Professor K. J. Conant, of the department of Fine Arts, in conjunction with President Lowell...
...runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from its historical focus the Vagabond feels that he can satisfy his academic appetite--at least...
...ancient and popular supersitition that contact with a toad brings warts to human membranes was long ago scientifically disproved...