Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be close competition in the relays between all the old rivals, Nearly twenty teams are entered, and the following will be matched in relay races...
...bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields gives Widener Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library...
...repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author on your own judgment instead of waiting until sixteen old women had waited for some echo and echoed it and called it their verdict.' Emerson is represented by 'The Titmouse' and also by the loose and printer-thumbed sheets of an article hurriedly written in the hours following the arrival of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation...
...connection with Seniors living in the Yard there are now two traditions: the one, that Senior classes always room there; the other, that the old dormitories are most undesirable places to live in. The latter tradition has more than a little foundation owing to certain crudities in the conditions there, such as the furrowed floors and dust-spreading brooms. Nevertheless, these old dormitories are now equipped with all the conveniences of Mt. Auburn street, with the exception of swimming pools and elevators. And it need hardly be said that any man who cannot forego these two luxuries and undergo...
...Tuskegee Jubilee Singers, a quintet of minstrels from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, will give a performance in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The program, to be rendered, includes old-fashioned plantation melodies, folk songs and dialect readings. The men, who have traveled over the entire country, singing in the interest of their school, are skilled performers and have been accorded enthusiastic receptions every where they have been. The entertainment tonight will be of especial interest to an American audience...