Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many times crushed out joy from the hearts of happy mortals coming down from examinations; and the dark front of Sever has its seasons of appearing gloomily prophetic. But in spite of these architectural miscarriages, the ensemble, especially to a Harvard man, is distinctly attractive. The University did not blossom into being overnight; it has been spreading and adding to itself for almost three centuries, and its very heterogeneity is a living reminder of the past. The afternoon sunlight, glinting through the leaves in summer against the red brick of Massachusetts, besides recalling memories of rugged Continentals, also brings...
...Richelieu was the Cardinal-Duke, as was Cesare Borgia; de Rohan was the Cardinal-politician ;Reginald Pole, the Cardinal -man -without -a-country; Wolsey and Mazarin, the Cardinal-statesmen ; Newman, the Cardinal-poet ; and "in the person of James Gibbons the full flower of spiritual princeliness came to its blossom...
Upon first consideration the plan suggested by Director Blossom of Yale for an intercollegiate baseball league is appealing, but Major Moore's vigorous denial of the rumor that Harvard would enter such a league is based upon more than a recollection of the unfortunate fate of such an association in 1887. The problem of the increased expense involved in organization of schedules under an intercollegiate league could perhaps be met by raising the price of tickets, which would in turn probably necessitate a discarding of the present plan of admission to games on Soldiers Field by H. A. A. books...
Somewhere in the South Atlantic, cruises the Blossom, three-masted schooner, 109 feet over all, with a 24-foot beam, bearing George F. Simmons, of Houston, Texas, formerly game warden of his state and professor of ornithology in the University of Texas and in Rice Institute...
...Simmons' expedition is financed by Mrs. Elizabeth B. 'Blossom, of Cleveland, for whom the schooner is named. He has chosen his personnel for specialist efficiency and general ability. It includes Robert H. Rock well, of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, taxidermist, who will mount groups of the island wild life; W. Kenneth Cuyler and Allen L. Moses, collectors, who will prepare the skins. Mr. Simmons himself will devote much time to the many rare and tropical birds - the sheerwater, gannet, booby, king and emperor penguins, jackass, manofwar, albatross, etc. Experienced navigators and sailors, all college men with scientific training...