Word: cerberus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall, the music building. Many books in Widener are not catalogued at all; even if they all were, the nature of the material would require more examination than the title page on the catalogue card, which may be sufficient in other subjects. When an undergraduate tries to pass the Cerberus guarding the stacks he is rebuffed, and it is even difficult for a faculty member to get permission for him. Once in the music stacks, the facilities are overwhelming. A single desk below a basement window without an electric light is the sum total...
Orpheus, son of Apollo, played his lyre so well that birds and beasts were stilled and oak trees moved from their places to listen. Even Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of Hades, was lulled to sleep when the musician tried to bring Eurydice back from the dead. Jealous Thracian maidens killed Orpheus who was buried in Libethra where the nightingales are supposed to sing more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. He is remembered as the God of Music...
...Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns...
...Orpheus fountain, water will spurt up as high as the knees of Orpheus. Dripping lines of water from the teeth of Cerberus will harmonize perpendicularly with the legs of the figure. Human torsos representing shades in Hades have been carved into parts of the angular unsymmetrical base. When the fountain works they, like the dead, will seem to float in the mists of another world...
Time came and time went, but Cerberus remainded. At length the owner arrived to claim the dog. Add one item to the H.A.A.'s budget--fifty cents for a can of Roach's flea-powder...