Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holworthy and Grays Halls, between Harvard, Massachusetts and University Halls a great throng of two thousand young Harvard men had come together with spontaneous enthusiasm to see, to cheer, to hear the man about whom they had read so much, but seldom or never seen, the man whom they felt rather than Few realized until after it was all over and twilight had descended about the trees and old bricks of Harvard Yard that they had been present at the most notable assemblage ever gathered at the University, that it was to greet the man who had transformed that Harvard...
...office, although these were advantages of which he made good use. His insight and his judgment so often compelled respect that men came naturally to depend on him for guidance. And he had the rare quality of greatness that caused him to change his mind when he felt that his opponents were right, as they sometimes were...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...
Beyond the Horizon. Just over the circle of patched hills, where the sun goes, lies the elusive beauty that, to Robert Mayo, is abundant life. Always he has felt the imperious urge to follow in search of it. When finally the opportunity appears-a chance to ship on his uncle's boat-he suffers it to pass because love for Ruth Atkins holds him to the farm. Robert's brother, Andrew, has also fallen under Ruth's spell. Incapable of bearing the constant sight of her in the arms of his brother, Andrew, a born farmer, seeks...
...gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful subjective pieces, some not too happy reflections in the classical manner and several lyric miniatures of priceless rarity, "The Toadstool's Defense," "I Heard the Marvellous Music of the Birds" and "Rain Children," which...