Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Initial function in the regular "opening days" series of receptions following the table-hopping marathon of registration and the brain-curdling exemption and placement examinations, will be in the form of oral crystal-gazing by members of the University's Administration and Faculty, in an effort to give new students some idea of what their future at Harvard will be like. Provost Buck and Bender head a list of speakers that will include C. Crane Brinton, professor of History, and Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...mile Boston Marathon each year on Patriots' Day* have a variety of motives. At least one 200-pounder runs it to reduce. Stylianos Kyriakides ran it last week because he is a Greek...
Stylianos is a 35-year-old electric-bill collector, holder of the Greek marathon† title, who lived through the misery of wartime Athens. A year ago he had an idea: Greece's first victory in 50 years of Boston Marathons might dramatize his struggling nation, gain U.S. aid for his hungry countrymen...
...state holiday in Massachusetts, on the anni versary of Paul Revere's ride. This year the marathon was held a day late because Patriots' Day fell on Good Friday...
...First marathon course: Marathon to Athens (22 miles). Date: 490 B.C. Sole runner: Phei-Athens' dippides, the victory over messenger the who Persians, brought and the then news fell of dead...