Word: grass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Committee has procured an ideal site for the Library building. It is a large plot, almost square, with a frontage of over two hundred feet, or somewhat less than a city block. The building will face the large central square of the town, La Place du Pueple, a grass-covered common intersected with walks and dotted with trees and shrubbery...
...Bateau, b) Cortege, Debussy Organ Solo--Salutation, Macdougall Professor H. C. Macdougall Fantasia "Lohengrin", Wagner Overture to "Sakuntala", Goldmark Suite, "Nuteracker", Tschaikowsky a) Overtune Minature b) Danse de la Fee Dragee c) Danse Chinoise. Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli a) "Like shadows o'er the grass" b) Problems c) "Petite Soldat", Sextette d) Wellesley Medley Hungarian Rhapsony No. 2, Lisst Kammenol Ostrow, Rubinstein Invitation to the Dance, Weber-Berlioz
...same number with its editorial on the Phi Beta Kappa matter, prints front page articles on the election of a wrestling captain and the progress of the crews on the Housatonic (this last was reported slow). There is also a traditional plea for the existence of the academic grass as against informal baseball...
Professor Perry then spoke of Whitman's book of poems, "Leaves of Grass". In this work, he sought, "a new and national declamatory expression". This remark has been frequently quoted by those who claim Whitman is not a poet at all. "He wrote under the influence of powerful emotion, and his work suffers from this. He has tried to put his country as a whole into the pages of "Leaves of Grass". Whether he succeeded or not has been much disputed...
...public, and are reserved to Allan Pinkerton's brave boys. If things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard--and we must prepare ourselves...