Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Welcome. Premier Baldwin opened the Imperial Conference with an allusion to its origin in the assembly of Dominion Premiers at London in 1887 to attend the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. "The present Imperial Conference," he continued, "must seek to discover how the Dominions may be yet more closely knit to the mother country...
This morning at 11 o'clock in the Germanie Museum Professor Howard in his course German 25 will take up a discussion of "The Golden Legond...
...Franck's symphony came next, mystic, scarlet-tinged. Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
...body. Then I switch to religion, saying that I believe Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Mohammed to have had greater influence on mankind than any material scientist. I qualify my regard for Mohammed, who believed in war. I discount Christian ritual, holding for the Sermon on the Mount, the Golden Rule. I discount church services and spoken prayers. I declare there are sermons in thunderstorms, wildflowers, oakleaves, snowflakes, squirrels. I advise religionists to adopt the methods of the scientists: obtain irrefutable, concrete data proving Immortality. Then men will have to believe, if the score is only 52 points to 48 points...
Under a fleet of storm clouds like battleships driving in from the Pacific, a tough team from St. Mary's baited the Golden Bears of California. Boyd ("Cowboy") Smith, half-sized halfback, with caliper legs and a blue jersey, ran for 80 yards to make one touchdown, for 45 to make another, and for the first time since 1917 a St. Mary's eleven went home rejoicing from Berkeley. Score: St. Mary's, 26; California...