Word: lindens
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...originally intended for the out-of-the-way chapel at all. Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary. It was to Mary that the linden triptych was dedicated...
...finest of the new accessions are two small linden-wood legionaries of death, carved in the mid-sixteenth century. They reflect the preoccupation with death then prevalent and resemble the skeletal figures in Holbein's Dance of Death, done earlier in the same century. With deft control of the wood, the craftsman of the Busch-Reisinger pieces grimly records the grotesque expressions on the legionaries' faces and the torn flesh as it hangs limply from their skeletons...
...Palmer Dixon '25, long one of the foremost supporters of squash and tennis at Harvard, has given $140,000 to the Program for Harvard College to be used mainly to renovate the University Squash Courts on Linden Street. When the renovating process is completed, the varsity squash team will use these courts as its home base during the season...
...particular, $120,000 of the gift will be used to build four gallery courts in the Linden Street building, with each pair of courts having a gallery capacity of about 300 persons. This will remedy one of the major difficulties with Harvard squash, for at present only about 30 or 40 people can comfortably watch a match in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...cannot join any other. The Porcellian and the A.D, the oldest and socially most prominent, perch unobtrusively above shops (J. August and Briggs & Briggs) along Mass. Avenue. In the rather vague hierarchy of social desirability, the next group includes (alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then come the Phoenix S. K. and the Iroquois (in adjoining buildings on Mt. Auburn...