Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journal to berate the Harvard crack pots, the gentlemen and the scholars. I hope you will follow the medieval example of my day when I was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and send all the candidates out to confiscate this journal and cremate all copies available in the Punch Bowl and put the fire out with good beer...
...richer is northern California's Stanford University, which has only 8,786 students and a $98 million endowment. Incomparably better is the state-run University of California at Los Angeles, which has stiffer academic standards and higher faculty salaries. To U.S.C. remains the past glory of nine Rose Bowl triumphs,* which the school went broke achieving, and the dubious honor (snapped one professor) "of having a sweaty jersey as the university symbol...
...Five of them during the long (1925-40) tenure of Coach Howard Jones. U.S.C. has had only one Rose Bowl victory since...
...bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least one wife were killed when he died...
Charmed Circle. Founded 523 years ago this week by the worldly divine, Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, All Souls was set up for "poor and indigent clerks" to pray in perpetuity for the souls of noblemen "drenched with the bowl of bitter death" during England's ruinous wars against France. Not much perpetual praying is done any more; rather the college is in purpose much like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which in fact was modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county...