Word: guests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This evening in 4 Holworthy will be held the first social meeting of the year. Professor F. C. de Sumichrast will be the guest of the society and will talk on Renan and other French thinkers...
Last night Professor Kittredge delivered his last lecture on the early English Gawain Romances. He told first the adventure of Gawain and two companions with the Carl of Carlisle, a huge monster, to whose castle they came one night. The Carl made some rather extravagant demands of his guests and only Gawain was polite enough to comply with them. He was rewarded with a seat at table beside Carl's beautiful wife and daughter. The crowning demand w. s that Gawain should cut of his host's head. With great reluctance he did as requested, and there sprang...
...called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that the Green Chapel is near and asks him to be his guest for a few days. For three successive mornings while the knight and his followers are hunting, Gawain is tempted by the Lady of the Castle. He resists her blandishments, but on the third day accepts, as a love token from her, a green girdle which will preserve him from...
...next nine years, so that at the end of that time Harvard will have a collection of models of practically all the flowers known. The younger Blasckka is now in Jamaica, studying the plants of the island. In a few weeks, he will come to Cambridge, as the guest of Professor Goodale, Afterwards, he will travel west, making a collection of the typical American flowers, and then return to Germany, and begin the work of reproducing them...
...annual dinner of the Lampoon was held at the Thorndike, Tuesday evening. Covers were laid for thirty, and about twelve old editors were present. J. A. Wilder '93 acted as toastmaster, and the guest of the evening was K. Fairbank, Law School...