Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...
...helping to bridge the gap between East and West are such carefully selected collections as that recently acquired by Philadelphia's Museum of Art (opposite). Containing 49 carved stone sculptures and temple fragments ranging from a 2nd-to-1st century B.C. sandstone relief on a post of a temple railing to a four-faced Siva-Linga that once topped the central column of a Hindu shrine, the collection covers more than 15 centuries, together makes up what museum officials unhesitatingly call "the most important group of Indian stone sculptures to be seen outside of India itself...
...Bahrenburg (Dartmouth), 6. Bronston (Yale)--2:07.0. 100-YARD BREASTSTROKE: 1. Buzzard (Syracuse), 2. Johnston (West Chester Teachers), 3. Koletsky (Yale), 4. Hardin (Yale), 5. S. Falk (Harvard), 6. Fleming (Yale)--1:06.1. ONE-METER DIVE: 1. Frischmann (Syracuse), 2. Gorman (Harvard), 3. Knight (Army), 4. Starkweather (Yale), 5. Stone (Harvard), 6. Hurych (Rutgers)--387.25 total points. 200-YARD INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Jecko (Yale), 2. McGill (Syracuse), 3. Pinney (Connecticut), 4. Clinton (Yale), 5. Sherman (Yale), 6. Jones (Amherst)--2:08.7 (Meet and Pool Record). 400-YARD FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Yale (Robinson, Hibbard, Cornwell, Anderson), 2. Harvard (Macky, Clifton, Lind...
Both Frank Gorman and Greg Stone are listed in the one-meter dive for Harvard; defending champion Frank Knight of Army and J.Douglas Starkweather of Yale are also strong possibilities. Knight must definitely be favored, and Gorman will probably offer sharpest competition...
...Gregory Stone '58, the chairman of this year's drive, said that he had no comment at the present time on the PBH proposal...