Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual enthusiasm at Memorial Hall the night before the Princeton game is growing weaker each year, according to the oldest waiter who philosophized on the important part such evenings form in a man's later reminiscences. It seems that in the good old days the chandeliers were festooned with victuals, and foodstuffs kept falling from the upper regions of the hall for several hours after the evening meal was over. The festivities this year opened with a volley of menus and table-number cards. This was rapidly followed by the conventional shower of sugar wrapped in napkins which were hurled...
Volume XXVIII of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philologoy is included in the list of publications announced by the Press. "Aristotle: Meteorology," by Francis H. Fobes '04, assistant professor of Greek in Union College, is a carefully worked out edition, based on the oldest sources...
...Beta Kappa Society is the oldest of the American college Greek letter societies. The society itself was founded in 1776, and the Harvard branch, known as the Alpha Chapter of Massachusetts, was founded in 1781. The aim of the society is to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and thereby to stimulate undergraduate interest in intellectual pursuits. The criterion of election is always the candiate's scholarship record...
...Harvard Advocate, founded in May 1866, is the oldest current newspaper at Harvard. It is published fortnightly during the college year, printing stories, essays, verse, articles, books and theatrical reviews. Literary candidates become eligible to election when credited with five units. Long stories and essays count one unit each, and according to this standard, poems and short stories are estimated. A competition determines the eligibility of business candidates. The Advocate desires, above all, to be readable, believing that this is the surest criterion of undergraduate literary merit. The Sanctum is on the third floor of the Union...
Morning, afternoon and evening tomorrow will be devoted to the celebration by the University Divinity School of its 100th anniversary of existence as a separate institution from the College proper. The separation of college and school in 1816 is counted the first establishment of a professional school at the oldest American university...