Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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About the verse in general little need be said except that it is distinctly undergraduate work. The sonnet "To a Sea Gull," by Mr. Thayer, voices a graceful enough conceit; whether he is at sea or on land one is not quite sure, but one gets a true though faint breath of poetry and forgets defects...
...operative Society has purchased somewhat over 4000 square feet of land in the rear of the store and stretching back to Palmer street. A new building will not be constructed as the news papers have stated, but an addition will be built to the present store. More room is made necessary by the great increase in the Co-operative's business in the last few years...
...contractors have been at work for three weeks on the land next to the power plant on Boylston street. Most of the time so far has been spent in clearing and leveling the ground. Yesterday morning a steam shovel was put in operation, and digging for the basement of Smith Hall was commenced. The men are also driving piles for the foundation of the big, ornamental iron fence that is to surround the dormitories. The concrete walls of the basement will be started as soon as the excavation has reached sufficient depth. The rich top soil which is being removed...
Last day of Topiarian Club trophy land-scape competition...
...Green's philosophic poem nowhere reaches the power of its inspiring phase. In it the reader passes through a fog-wrapped, lifeless sea rather than through one of aimless action. The story called "The Cross Roads" takes us over an equally uninteresting land route. We may perhaps read to the end to discover whether the unconscious man may be the murderer's victim recrudescent. We are not greatly gratified at the final revelation, since it has been intimated that the notices are everywhere. Mr. Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft...