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Removal of turf and two feet of earth about the edges laid bare the wooden foundation on which the Tercentenary gift stands. Preliminary probings, however, revealed no trace of the marauders, and at a late hour last night it was not known whether more digging would take place at the same spot today or a return be made to Sever Hall, perennial eating ground of these animals...
Until the last two years no effort had ever been made to gather material which would trace the history of the Harvard dramatists. An intensive campain was then put on, graduate members were canvassed, and college archives were searched for articies pertaining to the Club. The collection is now nearly complets, and it will he housed permanently in the Widener Theatrical Collection until the Club is able to provide an adequate place...
...denizen of Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
...worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from the Nazi government...
...museum authorities. The natives lived under a "divine monarchy" and a religious system notorious for its human sacrifices, which annually destroyed many slaves and king's favorites to pacify the local gods. These customs were continued until Benin was subdued by the British in 1897. Today scarcely a trace remains of the ancient city, with its famous palace harem lodging the king's 900 wives...