Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fraternity question. One recommends the establishment of two new fraternities with the aid of the older organizations, and the second states that "the new fraternity buildings necessitated by the university building plans should be open houses, as simple and as inexpensive as is wise, being built with an eye to serviceability and usefulness rather than producing unnecessary extravagance as the result of a race for ornaments...
...modelled after Addison's Spectator. Its object is explained in the first paper: "This paper is Entitled the Telltale or Criticisms of the Conversation & Behaviour of Scholars to promote right reasoning & good manner." Telltale is unknown. "I am so envelop'd with clouds & vizards that the most piercing eye cannot distinguish me from Stoughton's Hall." Unfortunately he does not follow his stated purpose of criticism entirely but describes in a number of pages curious dreams in which he meets a number of characters disputing of various subjects, and tells at great length of an meeting...
Tradition is a wonderful thing--but many more inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while...
Charlemagne II with a black eye...
...table sat a group, among them Mildred Harris, my divorced wife. One of the men di-rected a slighting remark at me, followed the jibe with a punch. I retaliated; the fight became general. Other diners rushed in, separated us. Next day I appeared with a bona fide black eye. Reports said I claimed it to be a publicity stunt, admitted to have been caught off guard." Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, (See Page 5): "At the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show in Manhattan, there was keen rivalry among exhibi-tors of Pekin ducks. I divided honors with Mrs. Payne Whitney...