Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...remains so even to this day. The Dartmouth Freshmen are, for some reason or other, burning little green caps on the campus. It seems rather heathenish to continue to sacrifice to a pagan deity, but, after all it may be rather nice. At any rate, youth, consistent with ancient Greek precedent, does not fail to carry on the torch...
...Vagabond particularly recommends another one of Mr. Hersey's delightful lectures on the Theatre, in Emerson J at 2 o'clock today, this time on "The Art of the Modern Theatre in Europe". The lecture will, as usual, be illustrated with lantern slides showing modern and ancient types of stage setting and the more mechanical features of production. For those who have attended the recent lectures in the new Cambridge School of the Drama, Mr. Hersey offers the pleasing contrast of a similar subject treated in a slightly more academic manner; and for vagabonds less inclined to specialize, a natural...
Cetinje, the ancient capital of Montenegro, Podgovica and Danilograd on the route of an amazing motor route into Albanija...
...White Eagle of Poland, they will pass up poor Danzig, will call at the new and prosperous port of Gdynia, an artificial harbor constructed by Poles with mighty zeal near the tip of their famed "corridor to the sea." Nothing would please most Poles more than that Danzig, ancient and once splendid city of the Hanseatic League, should die of slow, economic strangulation...
...only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...