Word: relics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...carpers at Harvard's football schedule this year will have to take a back seat now that the schedules of the spring sports have been published. The talk of "olderdown" games will have to be a relic of the past, for contests have been arranged with some of the best teams of the East, not to speak of long southern trips to Annapolis and Charlottesville for the baseball team, Washington and Norfolk for the tennis team, and matches at Cornell for the crew and the lacrosse team...
...Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching, while only this past week a Boston paper publishes a reprint from a French daily expressing astonishment and horror at this "relic of barbarism in America...
...wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...
...rooms on the ground floor there is a pathetic relic of Rheims Cathedral, which has recently been sent to the Museum by a French friend of the University, who was here last year. It is a bit of molten lead which had fallen down from the roof on to the pavement, catching one or two little scraps of stone work in its fall. The relic has sentimental but not artistic value...
...prove inconsistency in these blue laws and their enforcement would be child's play. They are enforced in Cambridge, and not at Longwood. The beaches on Sunday are scenes of amusements less innocent than tennis. How long are people of Massachusetts to suffer under this relic? When will Massachusetts catch up with the times...