Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...straw. No more on candid headwear in the Yard is seen the vertical black and red stripes of the crew-man's ribbon. No more the horizontal stripes of the hockey man. Where are the straws of yesteryear? Where is the glory that once was hatbands? Where are our ancient symbols...
...Stranger" has been written by Miss Leonore Loveman, who was formerly a student in Professor Baker's English 47. In three acts, the plot concerns the hostility of ancient customs in Hungary to American ideals, the former represented in the hero and the latter in the American heroine. The action throughout the play takes place in Hungary, and inasmuch as Miss Loveman, the author, is a native of Hungary, she is well informed as to the traditions and mode of life of the people in that land...
America goes forth in a few weeks time to fight nobly for liberty. Our desire, hardened to unchangeable determination, is to free Europe from Germany. That is a laudable determination, and true to our history. Yet not ten million fighting men could free Europe from her ignorance, her ancient brutality, her narrowness, and her political sin. That rests with Europe. And to date that Government which has been called the most enlightened democracy existent has refused to recognize the freedom of women...
...Clarence D. Ussher told of his experiences before and during the siege of Van at the last meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House last night. Dr. Ussher was a medical missionary in the city of Van, the ancient capitol of Armenia, when the war broke...
...traditions, none is more ancient than the tradition of the dormitory "maid" of all work, popularly, cordially, and euphemistically known as the goodie. On many a student wall the gentle motto, "What is home without a mother?" has been replaced by the yet more unanswerable question, "what is a dorm without a goodie?" There is no reply to the query. A second Anthony might pause in vain...