Word: cypress
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...wish to correct a statement that appeared in Monday's Crimson. When the Harvard dining-hall employees met Sunday night in Cypress Hall, the Student Union as a whole had not yet defined its stand on the present labor situation in the dining-halls, Mr. Ogden, who spoke at that meeting made no pledge of support from the Student Union as a whole. He did, however, promise the cooperation of the Labor Committee which had had an opportunity to review the situation and arrive at a position. We offer this correction only to indicate that the decisions of the Students...
...Peter's, where the weeping populace, which had been thronging St. Peter's Square, began filing past his bier. There began the novemdiali, nine days of papal funeral rites, on the fourth day of which the Pope was to be immured in a triple coffin of cypress, lead and elm. His resting place, near the tomb of the Fisherman in the crypt of St. Peter's, Pius XI chose long ago, declaring: ''I also will find sweet repose in this place some...
...drenched and bewildering world. One of the bewildered people is a tall, lean, 25-year-old hillbilly convict who has never seen much water before. Given a boat which he does not know how to manage, he is sent to rescue a woman perched on an old cypress snag and a man clinging to the ridgepole of a cotton house...
Riding on a tide of successful labor uprisings throughout the State, Locals 112 and 186 of the American Federation of Labor met in Cypress Hall, Central Square, last night and approved a tentative contract with the University calling for a closed shop in the Dining Halls and kitchens and wage increases of from one to eight dollars...
...indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana's first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire...