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...Beta Kappa is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America, founded in 1776 at William and Mary College. The Harvard chapter is the Alpha chapter of Massachusetts and was established in 1779, three years after the organization of the fraternity. In the past such men have belonged to the chapter as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Charles W. Eliot '53, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, James Russell Lowell '38, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane...
...order, by classes, in which the applications of graduates of both the College and the graduate schools will be filled. By this system, a slip bearing the year of each college class whose members have applied for tickets to the Princeton game is placed in a large box. The oldest class in the draw was that of 1852, the youngest, ex-members of 1924. In the draw the slips were pulled out at random, and the graduate applications will be filled by class in that order...
...essentially in conjunction with the orchestra. There have been one or two unaccompanied ecclesiastical choruses before, and good ones (the Paulist Choristers, for instance). But it was left for the Sistine Choir to demonstrate what a remarkable instrument the a cappella chorus is. Yet it is one of the oldest of instruments; the earliest school of our music, the medieval, was exclusively one of unaccompanied voices. The name Sistine Choir is one of the oldest and most august in music...
Probably the oldest spectator among the 53,000 who saw the Crimson team swept away by Dartmouth, was John Wesley Titus, aged 97 years. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the University in 1859 in the days when football was played without rules, and might the best man win. He saw his first game two years ago and was so delighted that he has been a constant follower of the sport ever since. The first big Stadium encounter he witnessed was the Princeton contest last year. After the game he was heard to remark that he wished...
...earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about 4,000 B. C.) and three human skulls, provisionally dated 50,000 B. C. by Professor Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, great Egyptologist, were among the objects found...