Word: legende
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Indeed, the hostess house offers first aid to the collegian in several important matters. "Free facilities for pressing clothes" may not be much appreciated on the Gold Coast, which has figured so largely in Harvard legend, but many a student will be gladdened by the news that he need no longer dispose his trousers between the mattresses when he wraps the drapery of his couch about him. Moreover, "wives of the professors will mend clothes and sew on buttons free." Why wives? If daughters of the professors could be drafted for this activity, supported if need be by young society...
...three wise men of the East are looking up at something on the front cover of the new Lampoon. It may be the bomb bursting in air or merely the printed legend, "Christmas Number," but there is something worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...
...five continents are tossed in war. Does not this heroic age in which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...Roger van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Hans Memlic and Albert Bonts. Significant in the Renaissance group are examples by Marcellus Koffermans, Girard David, Quentin Metsys and Jan Gossart--called Mabuse. Several of the so-called minor Flemish artists are represented by the anonymous Master of the Legend of St. Ursula; the Antwerp Master from Hoogstraaten, Joachim Patinir, Joose van Cleef, Colun de Loter, and the Franco-Fleming, Jan Prevost...
...made Wednesday by some workmen who were digging in the Yard for the purpose of replanting trees. A pair of old coins and a rusty key were unearthed, buried more than six feet below the surface of the ground. One of the coins is dated 1787. It bears the legend "Fugio," and shows a sun shining down upon a sun-dial. Underneath the dial are inscribed the words, "Mind Your Business." On the reverse side is a chain of thirteen links, surrounding a circle in which are the words, "United States--We have...