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These, and dozens of other relics, are part of a colorful exhibition of the highlights of the University Archives, a remarkable repository of Harvard documents and memorabilia that spans three centuries...
Today's Advocate differs from its predecessors in many respects, although its members and building remain steeped in the magazine's lore. Behind the red door of 21 South Street lie walls of framed memorabilia--special issue covers, photographs, announcements of a poetry reading by John Ashbery, a yellowing newspaper article about five editors forced to resign in 1937 after publishing two "crudely maudlin" articles. ("It is about time that college authorities maintained rigid supervision over the childish literary efforts of these embryonic authors who seem to think it a mark of distinction to dish up dirt for the edification...
Before the ultimate lifting, the site of the Mary Rose had yielded a fabulous trove of Tudor memorabilia. Aside from cannons, by 1979 the divers began to bring up boxes of clothing, medicine chests and such objects as carpenters' tools, coins and pocket sundials, the Tudor equivalent of watches. One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe. Few other examples of the antique instrument are known to exist. Also recovered were the bones of about 100 drowned men. Scientists are studying them for clues about nutrition and disease in the Tudor...
...true fan, interested more in the relic than the souvenir a walk down Common wealth Avenue is in order Hiding among the apartments is Fenway Cards, the only baseball memorabilia shop in Boston and perhaps the best baseball museum this side of Cooperstown...
...shares with his customers the sentiment that baseball, and the artifacts which represent it are "priceless." So as many fans stop in with no intention of buying goods. Kelly displays many items he will never sell. Most of these lie in the Ted Williams alcove, a collection of Williams memorabilia larger than the Hall of Fame...