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...spirit that motivates these gifts does not flower magically at the moment the giver's name is added to the Alumni rolls; nor is Harvard the recipient of bounty because its graduates are unable to find other worthy beneficiaries. Only the memory of four years well and enjoyably spent will bring Alumni to the point where they are glad to part with hard cash to enable posterity to participate in the same experience. But memory is a fragile thing. It must be stimulated and refreshed by such things as reunions, class secretaries and albums. Of all these the Class Album...
...hotelkeepers know, the safest picture to hang in a hotel bedroom is a flower print: it makes nobody mad, except an occasional connoisseur. That flower-painting can be as handsome and as accurate as Audubon's birds was proved last week in San Francisco...
...plants. A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...
...three of the women. On a long, banquet-sized table covered with a white cloth in the White Cross aid station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
...This is John Daly . . .calling CBS in London. . . . I've good news-great news. . . . Land is near. . . . Flocks of migrating birds have been flying overhead. . . . A branch was fished out of the water with the leaves still fresh, and a little flower clinging to it. ... Perhaps it will be hours yet, but not a man on board...