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...their all-night parties, theancient Greeks played a game called Kottabos, which involved flinging the residue from the bottom of their cups of wine at a target. Kottabos was probably the first drinking game to get really, really big--supposedly even Socrates played. Today young philosophers still like to mix booze and projectiles. Only now they call it beer pong...
Baal would improve life at Harvard for all. Theancient Canaanites believed that proper worship ofBaal required that the worshippers engage insacred orgiastic rites to ensure the rhythmiccycle of nature. While the causal link is unclearanyone can see the benefits this kind of activitywould offer sex-starved Harvard students. Offeringlibations to Baal--the ritual pouring of alcoholicbeverages--couldn't hurt Harvard social lifeeither. At the same time, Baal would provide amore plausible mascot for our sports teams thanthe UC's ill-fated John Harvard look-alike...
Hammond, 91, was a Rhodes Scholar. His manybooks on the classics include The City in theAncient World, Notes on the History of Sicily andAeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader forCollege Students...
...Attention paid to the photographic collectionsand to the promotion of travelingexhibitions...has, inevitably, reduced theattention that could be given to developing theancient and medieval collections," the reportsays...
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