Word: xenophon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
...female college would be incredibly ridiculous. The indomitable ninety-seven deserve to be Chronicled in song and story as "Harvard's Own" and nobody else's. They rank easily with the "noble Six Hundred," the unconquerable "Three Hundred" of Leonidas, or even those immortal ten thousand who followed Xenophon from Atlanta...
...Throughout Xenophon's Anabasis, one Chirisophus habitually functions as spokesman...
Homer has told us of the expedition against Troy, Xenophon has given us the tale of the Ten Thousand, and Caesar has recounted his Gallic conquests. All these worthy narratives have had their interest to Harvard students, even though this interest was centered somewhat more on what the writer's words meant than on what they were talking about. The latest contribution to literature which will find its place in the historical archives is the story of the invasion of the West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden...