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In response to worried queries from harassed Harvard men as to the danger of that ole devil Jumping John Dillinger, 1934's desperate man about the country, showing up in the Yard some of these days, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, of the Yard forces, revealed yesterday that there...
Given to Argenteuil by Charlemagne a thousand years ago, admitted as a genuine relic by Archbishop Hugh of Rouen in 1156, the Holy Tunic has been zealously guarded down the centuries. Credited with hundreds of miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a...
Because Gobelin tapestry experts in 1892 fixed its date as about the time of Christ, because chemical analyses proved its stains to be blood, the Holy Tunic would seem to have better claims to authenticity than two other famed relics, the Holy Coat of Trier and the Holy Shroud of...
In the spring of 1911 Oxford celebrated a great crew victory over Cambridge, setting a course record of 18 min. 29 sec. In 1923 with 40 victories to 34, Oxford still seemed to have an uncatchable lead, in a. century of racing over the muddy 4 ¼ miles on the...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'...