Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years the Harvard Botanic Garden has been the oldest of its kind in America, as the earlier gardens of Bartram and others have long been abandoned. It is one of the oldest scientific departments of the University founded in 1807 and thus is one of the first of field stations for the modern method of laboratory teaching of the sciences, writes S. F. Hamblin, Director of the Botanic Garden discussing interesting phases of this little known department of the University, in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...founder of one of America's oldest Universities will be honored tomorrow afternoon by the town of his birth when the Yale Club of Boston dedicates its new memorial tablet to Elihu Yale. It has been discovered in recent years that Elihu Yale was born in Boston and the tablet in his honor, will be placed on the north side of the Suffolk Bank Building in Scollay Square, a short distance from the site of his birth...
Several innovations have been planned by Henry Pennypacker '88, who has charge of the preparations for entertaining the teachers from the preparatory schools. In the first place, the masters will be quartered during their stay in Cambridge, in rooms vacated by seniors in Massachusetts Hall, the oldest but at the same time one of the most modern, of the University dormitories, and in Lionell Hall, one of the new dormitories just built last year. Members of the Senior class living in these dormitories were requested by the University to turn their rooms over for use of the preparatory school teachers...
...oldest sport in the history of man, and the first sport a person turns to in his life is track--from the minute one is born until one dies, track is a daily occupation for every man. Not everyone is born with a football under his arm, nor is every man able to pull an oar or bat baseballs out of the yard, but 99 44-100 per cent of the world is born with two legs that were intended for hard usage...
Fleshy Feodor Karamazov has begot, among others, three legitimate sons. The fierce appetites of the sire burn in the brothers. The father is murdered, the oldest son accused. Innocent, he accepts the punishment of Siberian exile, in order to repent the many excesses of his tempestuous nature, thus enters Salvation. The youngest brother finds light and peace in the holy sacrifice of priesthood. The second, whose fate is stark tragedy, has evolved a philosophy of cold rationality, wherein there is neither God nor morality, but only masterful determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised...