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...Rome. Some rhymes, they found, are at least as old as the city of Rome. Horace described little children playing Rex erit qul recte faciet-the first version of "I'm the king of the castle." Petronius heard a small boy say Bucca, bucca, quot sunt hie?, which later became "Buck she, buck she, buck / How many fingers do I hold up?" At least one rhyme in nine, say the Opies, was known in the time of Charles I; a good half are at least 200 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who Started Cock Robin? | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Morgan's fate is still in dispute. Anti-Masonic groups claimed that he was murdered and thrown into the Niagara River. They even produced a corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Shriners & Secrets | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

After receiving no answer from the comedian all week, Russell will send another communication to NBC this morning. He will repeat hie request for the car and will ask Allen to take personal care of the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Allen Ignores Student's Claim To Ford Lost Because He Listened | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

Possibly due to his experience teaching Radcliffe girls, Sorokin feels that co-education makes no difference to the college students. Another consideration may be that the average undergraduate can undoubtedly hie himself off to some place where there are women and therefore the main angle becomes one of travel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Thinks Harvard Men Grown-up; Calls Them Immune to Co-ed Temptations | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

During their leisure time the campers engaged in an educational program under the direction of Alan Gottlieb '41, who was president of the Student Union and later of the Liberal Union during hie undergraduate career. The program included talks by farmers and industrialists from nearby towns, visits to local factories, etc. On the side the members of the camp played baseball with the town team, and even found time to put on two vaudeville shows and three plays for the benefit of the townspeople. Relations between the work camp and the town of Grafton were ideal and left nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work Camp Restores Dam For New Hampshire Town | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

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