Word: oldest
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...Stadium has some historical significance in that it is the oldest concrete-supported stadium in America. At one time a bowl, it was reduced to its present horseshoe shape in the 1930s. Temporary stands are moved into the open end of the Stadium for the Dartmouth and Yale games...
Charles William Eliot, who was president of Harvard through the late 1800s and the turn of the century, once called Harvard "the oldest, richest, and freest" university in the country. You can't dispute him on the first two points: founded in 1636, Harvard is unquestionably the oldest institution of higher education in America; and its endowment, about $1.4 billion, makes it still by far the richest (University of Texas is second, but it's all new money). As far as freedom goes, well, Eliot was speaking before the advent of experimental colleges where you can do whatever you want...
...average parental income of students here is sky-high, and the University's Governing Boards, if not its faculty, are still populated by the heirs to America's oldest East-coast fortunes. In that sense Harvard's real function is to train the children of the powerful to take the power themselves, so as to keep it in the family. The reason Harvard graduates have has such a profound influence on America--five of them have been U.S. presidents, countless others presidents of corporations--is not so much their innate talent as their good luck at being born...
...lavishly to charity and urged his children to do the same. The family gave a $1 million wing to the Israel Museum, and still donates at least another $1 million annually to various worthy institutions. For the making of more money he also relied on his children, particularly his oldest son. Scrappy and assertive, Edgar went south to Williams College in Massachusetts, but after three indifferent years he transferred to Montreal's McGill University to get his B. A. degree...
...OLDEST PROFESION in the wold has finally began so painted, padded and well-packaged by Hollywood that it's been sold into respectability. Prostitution is still illegal, sure, but like other professions that used to be morally reprehensible, it begins to lose its shame when it becomes big business. Men who were "in trade" used to be socially blighted. Acting, as long as actors were poor, was considered a dishonorable occupation for centuries--until mass audiences and later the silver screen turned actors into billionaires. When Xaviera Hollander announced that she had struck it rich, she was asking the world...