Word: delta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cynicism about politics is natural," said Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 in a lecture last night at the banquet of Delta Sigma Rho, the national honorary debating fraternity. Professor Holcombe was discussing various aspects of politics as a career...
...entire Class Day exercises were held about the tree. At that time seats were erected about the tree and visitors and class members alike were present. In 1898, however, when the space had become too crowded, all of the exercises, but the private ceremonies, were moved over to the Delta and held about the John Harvard Statue. They continued there until 1904, when the present Stadium exercises were inaugurated...
...Coolidge, along with Messrs. William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, was made Honorary Governor General of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims; the President donned cap and gown and was initiated into the John Adams Senate, Boston University Chapter, of Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity at the White House in the presence of 200 members of that organization in similar garments...
...inner chamber. One of the interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius. Cheops is oriented to within five minutes of arc to modern latitude and longitude. Its meridian divides the Delta of the Nile and the habitable continents into two equal parts...
...Elliot Smith, distinguished anatomist and anthropologist of the University of London, traced in the relics found in TutankhAmen's tomb resemblances to cultural elements from remote races, affording proof of the widespread diffusion of early culture. Many of the same arts and crafts were found in the Egyptian delta as early as 3400 B. C. and in Polynesia...