Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting personalities in the tournament and the people of England wanted to see them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth and went...
...burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little promise in their studies at college seem to keep the Harvard flag flying...
After the sun has faded from the windows of University Hall, and the last belated class long since closed its books in the caverns of Sever, under the deepening silhouette of Widener tonight the Glee Club gives the second of its traditional Yard Concerts on the steps across the grass from the Chapel...
...many as they are varied, number among their most delightful these concerts that belong to the University alone. When the Yard has not long been green, and the first truly warm nights of spring have come, then the Glee Club sings to the sons of Harvard scattered over the grass beneath the elms until they too mount the broad steps and join in the full throated chorus of "Fair Harvard...
Dancing will be held both in the Hall and outside on the Delta where a canvas will be spread over the grass and walks. The program will include 20 dances of five minutes each, with only one three minute encore, before supper, which will be served from 12 to 1.30 o'clock. After supper cutting in will be in order...