Word: laurels
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...tablets in Memorial Hall transcept are to be draped with laurel for the occasion, the Memorial Society asks all friends to send flowers at 10 o'clock on Memorial Day, at which time a committee will be on hand to receive them...
...last night. Nearly 175 couples crowded the big floor of the Living Room, creating a scene of kaleidescopic festivity. The decorations though simple, were so artistically arranged that the usually cold, stone corridors and be-news-papered lounging rooms seemed converted into a veritable fairyland of youth and gaiety. Laurel wreathes formed the chief decoration, being draped along the walls and caught up at the chandeliers in long festoons. The Chinese lanterns were strung about in profusion and with the regular lights softened by red crepe paper shades, the entire scene was one of great picturesqueness. Much ingenuity was displayed...
...Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts, crowned itself with laurel and avenged its former reverses of fortune, when it defeated the Yale chapter in the annual game on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. Broad-browed scholars who, though familiar with Newton's laws of motion, had never before tried the effect of willow on horse-hide, rose to the occasion and mashed the pill into a pulp. The result,--six runs in the first inning and seven more in the course of the game, while the visitors could barely nose out ten tallies. The features of the contest were Gilday's screaming...
...Living Room, bordered by palms and with an open fire in the southern fireplace, was used for dancing. The Hall, Dining Room, Periodical Room Card Room, and Reading Room were arranged with boxes separated by screens of palms, ferns, and spruce. The rooms were hung with festoons of laurel and smilax, to which were attached rows of Japanese lanterns...
...placed. The boxes were located in the entrance hall, Periodical Room, and Dining Room, and were attractively furnished with morris chairs, sofas, pillows, and rugs. The partitions between them were simply screens of potted palms and ferns. The decorations in these three rooms were chiefly of smilax and laurel which were hung in long streamers from the centre of the ceilings. Japanese lanterns with electric bulbs to light them were attached at short intervals along the streamers and gave a very pretty garden effect. Supper was served from a table at the north end of the Dining Room...