Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of Polo as a minor sport, the awarding of the football H to eight Seniors who did not participate in the Yale game, and the appointment of G. E. Abbot '17 as chairman of the Baseball Advisory Committee, were announced yesterday by Major F. W. Moore '92, in a report of last Monday night's meeting of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. This announcement follows the one made directly after the meeting of the newly elected Football Advisory Committee...
...Abbot Speaks" Not Poetry...
...Abbot Speaks" is an excellent example of the danger of treating inadequately a subject already handled superbly by a great writer. Whatever else it may be, it is not poetry. But to discuss in detail its obvious shortcomings would be unsuitable. One can only regret the momentary lapse in taste that led to its publication. The question of the propriety of its perpetration originally does not concern us; but if it did, most of us can recall worse deeds of our own undergraduate literary days...
There are famed wells at Marienbad which have cured the distempers of many of the bourgeoisie of Germany. The property at the famous watering place is mostly in the hands of the Abbey of Tepl. Until recently it was leased by the Abbot to a German-Bohemian corporation. Now he is suing to recover...
...Middle Ages. It was his task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their reading and singing. Tittivillus may find ample occupation in our institutions...