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From the tower of Memorial Hall to the basement of a nearby church, and from the oldest dormitory to the oldest house in Cambridge, Harvard is the hub of legend and supernatural activity for miles around...
...WITCHING season in the good town of Cambridge. Trees are turning Halloween colors. Pumpkins gape from neighborhood porchstoops. And all the folks on the streets you find, from the youngest ragamuffins to the oldest, tenured curmudgeons, are sporting their naughtiest Jack Nicholson smiles...
...NOTEBOOK: Branca was the most easily recognizable player in the pool--the team celebrated his 'Shmen award by coloring his chest with permanent red, blue, and green markers....The oldest player in the pool was a 27-year old Dartmouth medical school student. The Big Green has a "club team," making anybody eligible to play for them. His wife and baby sat in the stands....The crowd of 50 was Harvard's biggest and noisiest of the season...
...remember when he attended the wake of a family who had lost both their father and mother. Walter went up to the oldest child in the family and put $500 of his own funds into the child's hand," says Koocher. "I suppose he thought it was the least he could...
...year 930, the islanders had established the Althing, a republican legislature that endures to this day as the oldest parliament in the world. Their isolation kept them proud and self-reliant, and Iceland's language remained pure; it still is very close to Old Norse, and a committee monitors all neologisms. An idiosyncratic literature has developed based on the Viking sagas, which relate the nation's early history. Today Iceland has a 99.9% literacy rate, one of the highest in the world, while maintaining some curious folk traditions: a survey by the University of Iceland reported that nearly...