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Dating from the first half of the thirteenth century, this grotesque griffin originally formed part of a row of ghastly figures that decorated the walls of the Sals Capitula, or chapter house, in the ancient monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza near Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was about thirty-four feet square by twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private...
Following their captain, Brayton, the Crimson harriers placed as follows: Dave Simboll fifty-third, Charlie Old-father fifty-fifth, Bill Tuttle sixty-first, Dick Wing seventy-fourth, and Gene Clark one hundred and thirteenth...
Alex Northrop '38 Crimson captain, was upset as the favorite in the mile run by Howie Borck of Manhattan who ran the distance in 4:13.9. At the 660 mark Northrop pulled out of the thirteenth place into first and went out ahead of Peter Bradley of Princeton and Borck. Borck stepped up his pace, however and went after Northrop to pass him and win by 20 yards...
...metrical translation of the thirteenth Ode in the second book of Horace, the John Osborne Sargent Prize of $200 went to Gordon M. Messing '38, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Eliot House...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday afternoon, March thirteenth, between four and six o'clock...