Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black French poodle Moro, to pay a visit to orphan asylums. Christmas day he visits the hospitals. But at midnight, when the first bells peal their glad tidings, he enters the chancel of his Cathedral of the Holy Cross, vested in stately robes, to pontificate at the midnight mass, oldest of Christmas rites...
...number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple of the eighth century come many Sanskrit and Tokharian manuscripts, and also figures carved in wood, including the oldest woodblock extant, cut before 800 A. D., for printing an image of Buddha...
According to the text of the resolution by the Associated Harvard Clubs when the gift was voted, it is intended to foster good-will and mutual understanding between the oldest University in the United States and the largest and one of the oldest in South America. The fellowship will bring a student to Harvard for two years, beginning in 1929. The gift was announced in Boston yesterday by H. M. Williams, '85, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...Club takes the boards and bows tonight under the appropriate title of "Fiesta." There is no reason to doubt that it will measure up to the standard set by previous productions of the club. The lines and settings are encouraging to the peculiar zest of amateur acting, and the oldest living playgoer cannot remember when a drama by native talent had no honor in its own country...
...along among undergraduate organizations in their seeking of the new as a bracer for the time-tested values of the classical. The past few weeks have seen the announcements of the former's premiere of a drama, and the decision of the latter to go modernistic; and now the oldest of America's musical organizations voices its intention of offering two compositions that are very definitely novelties...