Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officers of the Committee this year are Charles J. Bullock, Chairman, Professor of Economics; William S. Ferguson, Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Edwin F. Gay, Professor of Economics, History; Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government; and Pitirim A. Sorokin, Professor of Sociology. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Gilboy is Secretary of the Committee and is in charge of he statistical laboratory...
These difficulties should be remedied by the prompt purchase of more of the texts required. There seems to be no good reason why the shelves of the house libraries should be further stocked with best sellers or ancient tomes of interest only to the occasional antiquarian while fundamental text-books are inadequate in number. Nor does the existence of more complete libraries like Boylston and Fogg furnish any excuse for compelling the inquiring student to wallow through several blocks of New England weather to cover his weekly reading assignments...
Superstitious peasants expected all this good fortune before the first buds broke on the carefully pruned canes last spring. It is ancient legend that wines will be great in any year in which there are two full moons in a given calendar month. Nineteen-Thirty-Four was doubly blessed. Full moons shone Jan. 1 and 30, again March...
...extended European summer, Dr. Koussevitsky submits an interesting, effectively contrasted program to his Cambridge subscribers, where Town and Gown--Brattle Street on the one hand, balanced by delegations, of the music-hungry from Harvard and Radcliffe--crowd the Elizabethan stalls and galleries in the dim light of the ancient gas chandelier. Three major works are listed for performance: Weber's brightly pointed overture to his opera "Oberon"; Borodin's Second Symphony; and the mighty D Minor Symphony of Cosar Franck which was played last week at the opening pair of concerts in Symphony Hall...
...never be life save for that antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of this particular formation of earth, which in the twilight combines to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its god-like simplicity. Here is an ancient permanence that even the sea cannot claim. For the sea changes, the fields change, the heavens, the rivers, the mountains, the villages, and the people all change, yet Egdon remains. ... Egdon Health. Indestructible, immassive, the inviolate stronghold of ETERNITY ... the three o'clock bell from Memorial Chapel tower toils...