Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday afternoon the band will again form in front of Widener, and lead a procession, starting at 1.45 o'clock, through the Square to the Stadium, where the team will be holding its final practice before the Yale game...
...however, now materializing a scheme," declared M. Maurois, "modelled on your colleges and the English ones. This is the Cite Universitaire, or 'university town', an adjunct to the Sorbonne in the form of dormifories, clubhouses, and campus, now being constructed on the outskirts of Paris...
...frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet rather than of a novelist. Creating in a prose form, she sometimes goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation of their significance in her characters. Her feeling for heart and flesh is so complete, her understanding of it so thorough and so articulate, that her book, flourishing a rich and rhythmic language, seldom loses...
...modern America is a public whose members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...
...Professor Norton stirred men's minds to a new appreciation of beauty, and turned their thoughts into new channels," said Dean Brigs. "His lectures were informal talks in a beautiful form; the speech of a highly cultivated gentleman, with a background of knowledge and appreciation of all that is beautiful in the world...