Word: byronical
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...Greece in the Great War on the side of the Turks and the Germans. They had brought about Constantine's return and had so managed the war against Turkey that the Greek armies suffered a complete collapse. But other Greek armies have collapsed, ever since the day when Lord Byron failed in his attempt to help restore to them the glory which was theirs. Were not these men victims sacrificed by the people at the altar of fanaticism? This was their feeling and the rest of the world agrees with them...
Perhaps. We are inclined to think otherwise. Granted, the faithful painting of folly; granted, the momentary amusement. We still fail to find in his heetic, meteoric career anything permanent, anything constructive, or even anything literary. Keats, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Byron's latest "flash poem", much as Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush...
...Crocker, Mrs. Louis Fayerweather Cutter, Mrs., Howard Elliott, Mrs. Henry W. Faxon, Mrs. Robert T. Fisher, Mrs. Thomas Francis Goode, Mrs. William H. Gratwick, Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell, Mrs. Franklin Hamilton, Mrs. William R. Heath, Mrs. Alfred S. Higgins, Mrs. Clement D. Houghton, Mrs. Frederick H. Hovey, Mrs. Byron Satterlee Hurlburt, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Jones, Mrs. Daniel Higbee Kane, Mrs. George L. Kittredge, Mrs. David Mason Little Jr., Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Louis B. McCagg, Mrs. George B. H. Macomber, Mrs. Willard Shepherd Martin, Mrs. Henbert Parker, Mrs. George A. Sagendorph, Mrs. Endicott Peabody Saltonstall...
During the fall, '37 numerals were awarded to Freshman teams, 21 of these being to football men, 15 to soccer players and one to Byron Cutcheon, who finished third in the cross-country meet with Yale. Standish received five points toward the championship by having eleven men win insignia; Gore was a close second with ten, while Smith took third place with six. The remaining ten men did not live in any of the halls and hence were not counted in the award of points...
...Davis, R. D. Gerould, Philip Gossler, Percy Jenkins, Corliss Lamont, J. E. Merrill, J. P. Menks, Malcolm Morse, Campbell Newhall, C. K. Pope, W. J. Reycroft, P. A. Byron, manager...