Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory leaves Harvard in sole possession of first place in the Ancient Eight and--barring upset--almost guaranteed of an outright league crown...
Columbia's football coach could not have lasted a season at the University of Texas or US. And while Ivy coaches enjoy some perverse benefit when it comes to job security as a result of Ancient Eight athletic standards, they also enjoy several personnel advantages...
...saying is true, the hardest thing about Harvard--and, by extension, the other Ivies--is getting in. Once a player opts for the Ancient Eight, a coach can usually count on his or her contributions for the next four years. The question remains, however, whether the Ivy athlete is ever free to contribute 100 percent...
...removal of Sir Thomas More from Oxford by his father in the 15th century because the curriculum had added the newly "with it" subject of Greek. They like to recall the warning of Princeton President James McCosh in 1884 that removing Latin and Greek requirements would leave "the whole ancient world . . . unknown even to our educated...
...years ago last week that the Tibetan uprising against China's occupying forces propelled the Dalai Lama into Indian exile. Yet the spirit of his ancient, fairy-tale theocracy is still very much alive in Dharmsala, a former British hill station 250 miles north of New Delhi. Here, attended by a State Oracle, a rainmaking lama, various medicine men, astrologers and a four- man Cabinet, the Dalai Lama, 52, incarnates all the beliefs and hopes of his imperiled homeland, much as he has done since first ascending the Lion Throne in Lhasa at age four...