Word: emmanuele
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Tucked away in Dean Hanford's safe in University Hall is a 12 by 6 piece of worm-eaten brown oak with a common look that hides a three-century history of Harvard significance. It's a piece from a doorway in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, and antiquaries feel sure that once upon a time when John Harvard was going to college at Emmanuel, he must have brushed against the wood with his gown...
Naturally, there's no definite proof that the Founder ever did brush up against it, but the facts indicate that he probably did. The wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...
...work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...
...homely oak block as the symbol of good-will between the two Cambridges and the two great western democracies. When Hele presented it, he also turned over other relics. The wood is kept as a reminder that after the war, the famous Lionel DeJersey Harvard Studentship to Emmanuel will be re-established...
...Belgians, since 1940 a Nazi prisoner, was reported reunited with his children in Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2-Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin...