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...wanted Baker to remain it would have to do something quickly. "Just why this silent opposition persists is difficult to understand," a CRIMSON editorial said in the fall of 1928. "It may be a native distrust of the strange and the new or it may be an unconscious relic of the conventional point of view toward anything and everything in the slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legitimacy as a means of artistic expression has been universally recognized for some hundreds...
...excitement all began last Saturday, when news came from England that the skull of the famous "Piltdown Man," accepted for 40 years by authropologists and paleontologists as a relic of the earliest man, is actually a "most elaborate and carefully prepared hoax...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...
When the Romans occupied Britain, one of their big problems was the wild, tattooed Picts, who kept the northern end of the island in continual uproar. Fenced off at last by the famed Roman walls, the Picts remained as a troublesome relic of barbarism on the edge of the Roman empire. In Archaeology, J.R.C. Hamilton, assistant inspector of ancient monuments for Scotland, tells about excavations that reveal how the wild Picts lived...
Smallpox leaves no marks on the bones of its victims, but the diggers found one grisly relic of the pestilence. A frontier tale has it that the plague-stricken Indians tossed their dead into food storage pits. The diggers excavated such a pit and found jumbled skeletons...