Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Institute of 1770.Pres., H. P. Jaques; Vice-Pres., G. H. Bradford; Sec., G. W. Green; Treas., W. B. S. Clymer...
From 3 to 5 there will be music on the Green, and dancing in Massachusetts Hall...
From 8 to 10, illumination of Holworthy and playing of the Band on the Green...
...intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming grates, and draw deep thoughts from their beer-mugs. The poets of this school are carefully excluded - in their wild moods - from the papers of the Eastern colleges; but in the free and unbounded West they flourish like so many green bay-trees, and rack their brains for metaphors which would set Pope's teeth on edge could he hear them; but they have at least the poetic spirit, and are apt to make fewer metrical mistakes than their more sensible and prosaic compeers. From their number...
...Green, of the same class, in response to the "First Ten," delivered himself of a gushing speech, and wound up with an original interpretation of an air from French opera...