Word: greet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York...
...music lasted until a late hour at the Senior Dance last night: the success of which augurs well for the gala Class Day program set for today. The Yard is in full raiment for the festivities to greet returning graduates, and Groundkeeper Dennis Enright reported last night that the Stadium award is in perfect condition for this afternoon's affairs...
Emerson writes that silly phrase, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"?silly because the greatness is complete, the "oneself" has been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...
...assembled to condole with a martyr. We did not hope to greet the martyr vindicated. Mr. Mencken has done a dreadful and a brave thing...
...such outburst will greet the undergraduate articles on concentration, port of which appear in the news columns of today's issue and the rest of which will be published tomorrow. The public is slowly coming to realize that Harvard students are sincerely interested in their job, are consequently studying it in systematic fashion, are strongly inclined against timidity in speaking their minds, think with reasonable perspicacity, and express themselves with a certain amount of perspicuity. It is interesting to note that in the forty-six issues which the CRIMSON published between September 24 and November 21 the date...