Word: byron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small boys fight with sticks and stones, with mud, spitballs, hard peas. Not so gentlemen who have grown great on the good meat of dignity, the drink of influence. They well know that a tongue, derisively projected, cannot be readily wagged. Thus Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American (Baseball) League, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball tsar, joined conflict without resort to the grotesque methods of adolescence. Yet loud has been their struggle. The facts...
...Huntington Theopold Hiller Innes Brooks Whitehouse FOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE (Seven to be elected) Frank Guthrie Akers John William Hammond Walter Scott Blanchard Arthur Brooks Harlow George Dewey Braden Clark Hodder George Wadsworth Burgess Morrison Mills Walter Leeds Chapin Jr. Thomas Nickerson Jr. Philip Wigglesworth Chase Leonard Lispenard Robb Byron Ritter Cutcheon Adolph Walter Samborski Malcolm Whelen Greenough Philip Spalding FOR ALBUM COMMITTEE (Five to be elected) Thomas Dawes Blake 2nd Merrill Garcelon John Lyon Caughey Jr. Theodore Pearson Joseph Kinney Collins Otis Radcliffe Rice Donald Bosson Fleming John McCook Roots Joe de Ganahl Loring Whitman
...friends, his admirers and many publishing houses have been urging Professor Copeland to publish a collection of his readings with critical comment. He has, however, always said "no" to every suggestion or proposal; in fact, he has not published any books since 1909, when his "Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats", written in colaboration with H. M. Rideout '99, appeared...
...dark tower came, at Stagg Field, Chicago." Browning, to be sure, mentions in one of his poems a certain Childe Roland who came to a dark tower; but no Childe Harold ever went near a dark tower, to my knowledge. There was a Childe Harold, mentioned by Lord Byron, who . . . wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...