Word: gardening
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...purely literary articles, all have the merit of attempting something difficult and interesting. The attempts are, however, not uniformly successful. Only one of the poems is satisfactory. In Mr. H. E. Porter's "Horace's Garden," we find marble statues keeping guard against the snares of wind and rain, and silence muffling a landscape with a counterpane,--figures too metaphysical to be happy. Mr. R. J. Walsh's "The Death of Cleopatra" has gained a prize as a translation from Horace. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Odalisque," clear in thought, admirable in melody, worthily maintains the standard of "Advocate" verse...
Resisting the allurement of subjects which demand much experience and mature philosophy, Mr. D. M. Cheney wisely chooses to deal with incidents and emotions which, though not commonplace are well within his power. In "The Wizard of the Garden," he has a simple plot,--merely the growth of friendship between a lonely old man and an imaginative boy. Perhaps he has not always made the latter's talk sufficiently childlike, but possibly he was afraid thus to disturb the charming atmosphere of romanticism in which his characters dwell. His story has truth to human nature and beauty of expression...
...immediate object in view of this work is to develop men for the open indoor handicap games to be held in the Park Square Garden on Wednesday, December 4, in which 31 men have been entered, and later for the Boston Athletic Association meet on February...
...match in putting the 8-pound shot has been arranged for the Park Square Garden meet between B. T. Stephenson, Jr., '08, and W. W. Coe, of the Boston Athletic Association, the champion in this event. Only these two entries will be made in this match, and a gold medal will be awarded to the winner...
...Palge S.'08, tackle, prepared at St. Paul's School, Garden City, where he played tackle. He was guard on the second team and tackle on the university team in his freshman and junior years, respectively. He is 23 years old, 6 feet 1 1-2 inches in height, and weighs 200 pounds...