Word: tannenbaum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News Editor for This Issue: D. Joseph Menn '87 Night Editors: Maia E. Harris '88 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Joseph F Kahn '87 John N. Rosenthal '87 Daniel B. Wroblewski '86 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Copy Editor: Michelle D. Tannenbaum '89 Photo Editor: Daniel B. Wroblewski '86 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Business Editor: Wayne A. Seaton...
...field at half time. In 1980 at the Perm game, the bandsmen compromised by forming the same message in Arabic script. This, too, was deemed unacceptable. This year the subdued bandies did march into the bowl singing "To hell with Yale" to the tune of O Tannenbaum, but that was all. The Yale band also did not sink to the occasion. Had marauders from M.I.T. prepared an appropriate prank-last year they spent three weeks engineering the implantation under the midfield turf of a 4-ft. balloon, which they inflated and exploded by remote control in The Game...
Christmas Trees: The "tannenbaum" finds its roots in the evergreens used for winter solstice festivals to show that life survives even in the cruelest seasons. The Egyptians erected green date palms indoors during their winter solstice rites; the Romans hung trinkets on pine trees during the Saturnalia; the druids placed candles, cakes and gilded apples in tree branches as offerings...
...many legends explaining the origins of the modern Christmas tree, three are the most popular. Some scholars trace the "tannenbaum" back to the fir tree erected by Boniface, the 8th-century English missionary known as the Apostle of Germany, in place of a sacred oak of Odin. Others point to the "paradise" trees of knowledge of good and evil, used as stage props in 15th century German Christmas plays...