Word: johannesberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails of the fence, lightly chatting with demure sisters and belles from Boston as they watched the combatants work...