Word: friend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...picturesque figure," Professor Palmer has written, "has left us, a prodigious scholar, a stimulating teacher, a heroic character, a playful and widely-loved friend." And at the close--"That elvish figure, with the unconventional dress and slouching step, that face which blended the infant and sage, that total personality, as amused, amusing and intent on righteousness as Socrates himself--happy the university that had for a long time so vitalizing a presence...
...situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...
...hypochondriac confuses the insurance agent and his friend, and promises him his daughter under the impression that he is making an insurance contract, "payments quarterly...
...Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr. de la Mare, a poet of the modern English school, has come to America to represent the group of English poets who are to accept the Howland Prize which was awarded posthumously to Rupert Brooke. Being the personal friend of the late soldier-poet, Mr. de la Mare is well qualified to speak in an interesting and authoritative manner on the subject chosen for his address, "Rupert Brooke and Magic in Poetry." The meeting will be open to all members of the University and their friends...
...Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. de la Mare has come to America representing a group of English poets who are to accept the Howland Prize posthumously awarded to Rupert Brooke. His talk will be "Rupert Brooke and Magic in Poetry." He was a personal friend of the latter poet and is therefore singularly qualified to speak on this subject...