Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consideration by the liveliest students in the college. It seems to me self-evident that if the world is suffering from general ignorance of economic principles, we shall not save ourselves by reclining languorously in artistic backwaters or by sticking our heads into the sands of recondite research in ancient documents. Such subjects as enable one to invite one's soul are deserving of their quota of high priests, but the majority of all undergraduates will live in a work-a-day world, and will better themselves and that world by understanding it. Any further defense than this I leave...
Mayhem and yellow faces are allied for eternity in the card files of the Amalgamated American Cinematic Producers Inc. The "Son-Daughter" follows an ancient and well worn path. There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China...
...think it therefore advisable, and I have myself chosen, to combine the study of one of the ancient languages with that of a modern literature or with philosophy, economics, or government,--some subject which has an immediate contemporary interest and which may be studied without the necessity of first peeling off one integument of false connotation after another. These combined fields of concentration are not as well organized at Harvard as some of the single fields, and that, too, to my way of thinking, is an advantage, since it allows the student more freedom to achieve his own synthesis...
...ancient fields were formerly offered by the department, but were discontinued for some years owing to the lack of a tutor connected with the History and Literature staff who was adequately qualified to deal with them. Such a lack has now been filled, and the fields are therefore being resumed...
Harvard archaeologists have discovered in Ireland an ancient Viking parlor game that no one knows how to play, and which is supposed to date back about 1000 years. It was found in a Tenth Century lake dwelling in Balinderry by E. A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology...