Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stephen D. Pete read a paper entitled "Animal Worship in the East and West Compared." The prevalence of animal worship is very widespread in ancient religions. The custom is a very old one; it is a form of universal religion and a connecting link between pre-historical and historical times. Among the animals thus worshipped the hare plays a prominent part. The historical connection between different countries is not sufficient to account for this great prevalence. The worship of animals passes through all the stages of development of the human race...
...print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field and ran past the whole Princeton team with it? Of course every one who saw the game knows that perfectly, but it ought to be made a matter of ancient history...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In your editorial yesterday you spoke of the sign-boards which are such ancient landmarks on Jarvis Field. I should like, if you will permit me, to emphasize your words, and, indeed, to add to them a little. Anyone who has been much on Jarvis during the foot-ball practice knows what an unmitigated nuisance the "American youth"- or in other words-Cambridge muckers, make of themselves, by continually rushing in and out among the spectators, yelling and hooting and making themselves generally obnoxious to everybody. These atoms of brass even go so far as frequently...
...would say that long years ago those sign-boards were put in place-long before Harvard had reached her position of sublime indiffer erence or inanity-call it what you will-and that no one now a-days would attempt any such energetic movement as is threatened upon these ancient landmarks. May they always remain placed as they are now, sacred mementos of our former greatness...
...Hamilton, '87, has been offered the professorship of ancient languages at Chattanooga University...