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...weekend, these groups share an unmatched excitement about contributing to Harvard’s artistic tradition.First to perform is Harvard’s oldest a capella group, the Harvard Krokodiloes. This all-male ensemble performs pieces—ranging from jazz standards to classic rock—from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. According to music director Thomas K. B. Wionzek ’08, the Kroks “offer a tight sound, classic repertoire, and interesting choreography.” Wionzek says that...
...long chain that over time led to amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals. Indeed, Tiktaalik roseae, the official name bestowed on the fishapod (in the language of the local Inuit, tiktaalik means "large fish in stream"), falls anatomically between the lobe-finned fish Panderichthys, found in Latvia in the 1920s, and primitive tetrapods like Acanthostega, whose full fossil was recovered in Greenland not quite two decades...
...apparel company for 40 years and made its crocodile logo a much imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswearmaker--founded by his tennis-champ father Ren Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in reaction to the stifling long-sleeved Oxfords worn by players in the 1920s--the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items in the 1960s to 50 million last year...
...DIED. BERNARD LACOSTE, 74, who presided for 40 years over the Lacoste apparel company and made its crocodile logo a much-imitated global brand; in Paris. After taking over the sportswear maker?founded by his tennis-champ father Ren? Lacoste, who created the signature polo shirt in the 1920s?the younger Lacoste licensed its logo to manufacturers across the globe and increased sales volume from 300,000 items per year in the mid-1960s to 50 million last year...
...early 1920s, University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, banned black students from freshman housing and attempted to introduce quotas to reduce Jewish enrollment...