Word: courting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement that Mrs. Gardner will open Fenway Court during this week is welcomed by all who are able to take advantage of this annual privilege...
...Gardner's residence, as is well known, is built in the style of the Venetian Renaissance palace, and incorporates many original structural details which have been brought over from Italy. The central court, protected by a sky-light, is a marvellous complex of floral color and fragrance...
...Pageants"; H. S. Kerrick, "Military and Naval America"; M. Maeterlinck, "The Wreck of the Storm"; G. Moore, "The Brook Kerith"; C Morton, "The Art of Theatrical Makeup"; J. Masefield, "Gallipoli"; B. Matthews, "A Book About the Theatre"; W. J. Locke, "The Wonderful Year"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Austrian Court from Within"; W. Roberts, "Book-Verse"; F. W. Seward, "Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat"; E. H. Southern, "The Melancholy Tales of Me"; E. P. Stebbing, "Jungle By-Ways in India"; J. Timbs, "English Eccentrics and Eccentricities"; J. White, "Book-Song"; R. Datta, "Echoes from East and West", Stories...
...available to resident students, and a surprisingly varied body of people have responded to this plan. Among those listed is a locomotive engineer, who, having finished beginner's Latin, is going on with advanced work for pleasure. Railway clerks, men in mining camps, lawyers and doctors, ministers and court reporters are fellow students. A girl who gives her occupation as tub mending is deep in the translation of Virgil. Instructors of science and mathematics feeling that their training has been too specialized are studying Latin, and Catholic sisters are taking courses to improve their teaching. Evidently under such a system...
...John L. Gardner will open Fenway Court to visitors for a week, beginning November 27, with the exception of Thanksgiving Day. The house will be open from 12 to 3 o'clock. The attendance is limited to 250 daily. The famous floral display will again be on exhibition in the courtyard. Several new attractions have been added to the collection, including two stone figures at the end of the Spanish cloister, and a stone doorway leading from the cloister into the court-yard. Tickets are on sale at Herrick...