Word: adams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
...common with other scared freshmen, the one thing which gave him a sense of "belonging" amid the vast impersonal vacuum of a great university, the one voice and note of pervading human personality in which everybody had a share, was Copey? Meeting classmates whom you didn't know from Adam there was one way you could always make conversation, one platform on which you could always get together, and that was your huge relish of Copey's jokes. They passed around the college from tongue to tongue with the dizzy speed of village gossip. Copey's epigrams were...
...invading relay men. With Kane out of town, it is probable that the University's four runners will be Robb, Allen, Lundell, and Rogers. Miller will have a chance to compete with a fellow-backfield man when he goes to the mark in the 40-yard dash with Adam Walsh, captain of the great Notre Dame football team...
This will be the first time in more than a decade that a Crimson track team has run against Notre Dame. With some of Notre Dame's famous backfield stars entered in the race, the University team will face a severe task. Adam Walsh, captain of the Notre Dame football team last fall, and Elmer Layden, a halfback, are certain to be on the quartet. Walsh is the intercollegiate hurdle champion of Indiana while Layden holds the title for indoor sprints in the state. William Crowley, another football man may be in the team to face the University. He suffered...
...whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early Spring. Hand in hand they go, down a long forest corridor, shades of red and russet deepening round them (red for Adam,, whose name means "Red Earth"), naked little figures wandering among blossoms and friendly beasts in Montauk...