Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unique feature of the New Sterling Memorial Library will be an open courtyard which is entered through a passageway lending from the rear of the enhance ball. In the courtyard will be a flowing fountain, trees, and cloistered walks...
There was a ball one night in Washington whither Booth came late. Bessie Hale had dressed especially for him. She was watching, wondering. Meantime she waltzed to dreamy strains with a nice-looking young officer who was also, as many knew, an abject slave to her divinity. This was a tall lad, handsome, courtly. He had begged her hand time and again, receiving her refusals with cheery fortitude. Her parents preferred him to "the player." He used to send her stunning bouquets from the White House conservatory. He was President Lincoln's oldest son, Robert...
...dead," Bessie Hale did not take Bob Lincoln. He himself took some one else, long before Bessie married. He chose Mary, daughter of Senator Harlan of Iowa. They were married in 1868. And as the years went on, the inadequacy of a remark attributed to a guest at the ball described, became increasingly apparent. The guest had referred to Bob Lincoln as "a young man who will be known as the son of a president, if posterity remembers...
...going to make it part of my job as head coach to see that it is changed. Too many men are going down to Soldiers Field to while away the spring afternoons and not to put all they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they can never succeed and others are spending the spring in doing nothing...
...There are plenty of openings for places on the 1926 ball team and now is the time to get in shape for the season. I would like to see every man who is not an absolute necessity to another spring sport come out and help us put Harvard baseball back...