Word: lambe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents to the essential Uncle Henry...
What differentiates "The Dame School" from other collections of essays and makes Dr. Crofters more than "the Charles Lamb of America" can be realized more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally...
...Boylston Hall is probably the oldest large chemical laboratory in the world today. It was built in 1857 and at that time only a small part of it was intended for chemistry. Through the ingenuity of the Directors, Professors, Cook, Hill, Sanger and Lamb, it has been patched, enlarged and metamorphosed so that chemical work is possible for many students in it. The ventilation anl lighting are very poor, however, and the space is too cramped for the number of men who use the building. Moreover, courses in many branches of chemistry, particularly industrial chemistry, cannot be provided...
Freshman Lacrosse Team--D. H. Treanor (captain), D. Wishnack, E. C. Smith, J. Kushner, R. A. Lamb, W. H. Weld, R. P. Kentor, H. B. Bohm, R. T. Foust, J. M. Collins, W. S. Lindsley, H. B. Wilder, L. B. Young, W. P. Cole, R. Rasch, J. A. Jaffo, J. H. Wyman (manager...
...score of 10 to 2, the 1923 lacrosse team defeated the Yale Freshmen outfit at New Haven on Saturday, Captain D. H. Treaner made six goals, for the Crimson cubs, D. Wishnack two, and R. P. Kanter and C. T. Lamb one apiece. The two goals for the Blue were made by Watkins and Richmond. Stellar performers for the Freshmen twelve were W. H. Wells and J. B. Kushner...