Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the weather which the Vagabond, like Mr. Hardy and his cookoo, prefers. For the autumn rain has been upon us, and left the chill of autumn in the air. Summer is alive in his mind but the Vagabond turns a speculative eye on the orchards where the russet apples are growing ripe. Over the moors by the sea the gulls are still crying, but the sandpiper is gone from the shore. The sea-weed sways among the brown rocks, and the sun goes down in purple...
...fishing village which the Vagabond remembers, the streets are cobble-stoned, and the old houses have iron gates. A wind comes up from Spain, and shakes the elm trees on Main Street until the cobbles are buried in leaves. They are falling now, for Autumn comes early there, and blowing, red and gold, over the cobbles. The people who come every year with paint and canvas have packed up and gone. And one by one, every day, the ships come in from the fisheries: ships whose hulls have been painted by the wind and the sea for a whole summer...
...sent out the proudest ships in the world, with famous captains, now forgotten. They cleared Cape Horn in midwinter, and struck for whales in the Sea of Japan and on the Malabar Coast. That was a century back. Now they cast their nets in the west Atlantic, and when Autumn comes they glide back to port...
Harvard's schedule this autumn is undoubtedly as easier one than last year, when the Army game really came too early. This season the schedule is more exactly graduated and should give the coaches a much better opportunity to develop the reserves which they are now lacking. Strong replacements for practically any of the line positions are not available, although Coach Casey without question has as good a first line as last year. Captain Hageman, Hardy, Esterly, Nazro, and Hallowell have occupied their old positions without any challenge, while Gundlach and Bancroft have shown plenty of improvement and are firmly...
...director of the American Academy in Rome, that comfortable haven on the Gianicolo for prize-winning painters, sculptors, architects and landscape architects, has been 56-year-old Gorham Phillips Stevens, a retired architect and active antiquary with a vast knowledge of the broken remains of Greece and Rome. This autumn when the new academicians go to Rome to spend their days measuring cornices and their evenings learning the difference between barolo and capri, Mr. Stevens will still be puttering around the Forum, still available for advice and encouragement, but he will no longer be Director. Last week alumni and trustees...