Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American brook trout when President Coolidge takes himself and his retinue on a vacation. Equipped with hip boots and a fishin pole, and carrying a can of real bait--garden-worms of the common squirming variety--the Chief Executive descends on a stream in the Adriondacks or the Black Hills, and fills the Presidential breakfast table each day with the products of his own quiet skill in sport...
...gain less from the other forms in moral stature, in renewed purpose in life, in kindness and in all the fishing beatitudes. We gain none of the constructive rejuvenating joy that comes from return to the solemnity, the calm and inspiration, of primitive nature. The joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human...
John Milton Slade '28, of New Britain, Connecticut was elected vice-president, Albert Sidney Edmonds, Jr. '28, of Portland, Oregon treasurer, T. A. Taylor '28, of Stony Brook, Long Island corresponding secretary and cataloger and Richard, Currier Waldron '28, of Somerville recording secretary...
Those Juniors who were initiated Monday night are A. S. Edmonds, of Portland, Oregon; R. S. Kerston, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; J. M. Slade, of New Britain, Connecticut; T. A. Taylor, of Stony Brook, Long Island; and R. C. Waldron, of Somerville...
...tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty cotton acres; the giggling creek, Blue Brook, and the threatening, dreamy big river with a sandy island and soaring fish hawks. The figures moving everywhere are dominated by a blue-black giant, April, the foreman and patriarch of the settlement. Such story as there is culminates in the tribulation visited upon him by a God in whom...