Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation, the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere, is so secretive that it has met with an undergraduate delegation only three times in its centuries-old existence...
...Epps III, are much more friendly and accessible than their bosses. Jewett and Epps are great if you want to get approval to hang up a flyer or if you have a problem with the housing lottery. But when it comes to affecting real change at the nation's oldest university, these two are helpless...
Except for a couple of the oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the genre's single most enduring theme, warfare in space; Donkey Kong, whose endearingly quirky scenario had a little man racing up a skyscraper to rescue a girl from the clutches of a giant gorilla; and Tron, the only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired...
...four-mile race against Yale, the oldest intercollegiate rivalry, the Crimson surged to a commanding lead in the first 200 meters on the Thames River in New London, Conn. Harvard consistently pulled away from the outmanned Elis, crossing the finish line 10 lengths ahead of its opponents in a time of 19:15.3, the third-fastest time in the history of the race. The win marked Parker's 23rd win over Yale in his 27 years as coach of the Crimson crew program...
...models are not simply glimpses of Harvard's physcial plant. They are also indicative of the University's mindset, a mindset that champions expansion. The models are a pictorial statement that for the nation's oldest college, less is never more...