Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bethlehem, Pa., Lafayette and Lehigh scrimmaged sternly for the 61st time, continuing one of the oldest rivalries in football. Nine times successively has Lafayette conquered, this year...
Last week there was an election. Charles Gimbel wanted to retire. The apposite successor to his post of chairman was his brother Isaac. For new president there might be anyone of a score grandsons. The family chose the oldest of them, potent Bernard F., active socially and prominent in sports. Richard Gimbel must remain as secretary. He said that he could also carry the duties of treasurer, and the family put him in both positions...
Next to the Yale-Princeton series, the rivalry between the Crimson and the Blue is the oldest in the country. After a mess of preliminary negotiations Harvard faced Yale at New Haven on November 13, 1875. Contemporary accounts state that about 140 students accompanied the team to New Haven, "so that the college was very well represented at the match...
...words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...
...grand stand the ladies, who cheered as vociferously then as now. Ten feet up the tree a wreath of flowers encircled the trunk, and to get a small bouquet of these flowers was the dearest ambition of every Senior. Caps and gowns were cast aside, and the oldest possible clothes were worn. It was every man for himself, and the struggles were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from...