Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest piece of literature in Houghton is a fragment of Egyptian hieroglyphic material which experts date somewhere between 1500 and 2000 B.C. Houghton does not own much really ancient material, but its collection of medieval work, much of it in the form of medieval manuscripts, is particularly strong...
...reading room operates on the same principle as Widener's, only there is no such thing as a stack pass. The small coterie of Ph.D. candidates and other devotees comes day after day from nine to five, with appropriate breaks, and may pore over the same ancient volumes for days. Others come and go, but these few remain, working closely with the reading room staff, who call them the "permanent members...
...London Times feared that the upstart invasion might unbalance the ancient fortress of classical learning, and one frosty don complained that another half-thousand bicycles would clog the university town's streets beyond unsnarling. But last week, despite the serious reservations of some scholars, Cambridge University took the first formal step toward the admission of a new residential college, to be devoted chiefly to science. The new college will be named for one of its originators, Sir Winston Churchill...
...tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked in mythic watercolors: "Her upper body was all moon pearl . . . and her lower body all slithering ancient green-black coins...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Return of a series for culture vultures; the first mind to be plucked belongs to Edith Hamilton, 91, who has made ancient Greece her own garden...