Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the nuns and the gapers liked best was Morgan Manuscript No. 1, the great Ashburnham Gospels (probably executed between 825-850), lettered in pure gold on purple vellum leaves, bound in golden plates set with ancient rubies and emeralds. Even more valuable for theological students was a case of 9th & 10th Century Coptic manuscripts, one in its original covers, dug from the edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century...
Here are two logical demands sharply defined by idealism and practicality. But our editorial souls feel utmost repugnance at an attempt to mix the two, as recording in the Yale Daily News editorial. Well and good to divert popular sentiment toward debating, but not in this way. Spare the ancient art, and the renowned Websters and Burkes the humiliation of having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there...
...thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby gather no grace, let it consider these ancient, yet nonetheless staring facts...
...doffing and errand running characterized the life of the Harvard Freshman during the eighteenth century, if we are to believe the records of customs of Harvard College written into a copy book by an instructor in 1781 and even then called "ancient...
...Ancient fee comes to town today as enthusiastic Jawn Harvards "rally" to support despite opposition of my old friends, the Cambridge police. I observe that lowly betting experts estimate Eli to be top Dog, but that's a lot of Bull...