Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance between Europe and America is just as great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short...
...Lee Wade prize of $50 was founded in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade in memory of his son Lee Wade II '14 who was keenly interested in the Boylston prizes when in college. The three Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30, are among the oldest prizes in the University. They were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston '35 in honor of his uncle Nicholas Boylston...
...preliminary trials of contestants for the Lee Wade and Boylston speaking prizes were held yesterday afternoon and evening in Emerson D, it was announced last night by Assistant Professor F. C. Packard...
...Robert E. Lee joke is in bad taste. The Old Grad has always been, and is, too much for this reviewer to wade through, and the Conversations Overheard at a Department Store Art Exhibit can hardly be appreciated unless one has been to the Jordan Marsh jamboree. Oh, by the way! Most of the critical dicta in these conversations might well be applied to the Lampoon itself, depending on one's prejudices...
...patronesses will be headed by Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and include Mrs. Allen Curtis, Mrs. Charles N. Grandgent, Mrs. E. Farnham Greene, Mrs. Edward B. Hill, Mrs. Samuel Hoar, Mrs. George Lee, Mrs. Guy Lowell, Mrs. J. Tucker Murray, Mrs. Frederic R. Nourse, Mrs. Murray Potter, and Marchesa Ferrante di Ruffano...