Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devotees of Just So Stories are familiar with Yellow-Dog Dingo and his fabled speed. The dingo or warrigal (Canis dingo) is a stocky sand-colored wild dog, in size half way between a jackal and a wolf. Peculiar to Australia, so ancient is the dingo breed that its fossilized bones are found intermingled with those of the extinct giant kangaroo and giant wombat. Bitter are the scientific disputes whether the dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian...
William A. Grew is the playwright who prepared this gallimaufry of old notions. The ancient, familiar ingredients are many in number, confused in arrangement. The Girard family wants to marry Daughter Geraldine to her diamond-studded admirer, Mark Chandler. He happens to be the boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful...
...increase from four degrees awarded to men summa cum laude last year to twenty this year. In the same way the number of Ph.D.s has increased showing a similar trend in the graduate schools. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard also, can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...only too obvious that not the slightest effort has been made by the Society to keep up with the changes in educational method at Harvard. Founded at a time when all scholastic success was measured by isolated course grades, this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying...
...Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine...