Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lafayette Student Council, after exhaustive research in the lore of the jungle, has chosen the leopard as the symbol for the athletic teams of the college. In this beast they find that the admirable qualities of strength, cunning, and irresistibility are combined in the proper proportions to constitute a formidable whole. Other colleges which have selected such drab beasts as the bulldog, the tiger, or the bear, have apparently not exercised a similar spirit of reason and research in their choices of animated totems...
...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, where he heard Gaelic and faery lore. His college learning he got at Dublin, Paris and Leipzig. In 1911, he began an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo, few guessed his genius. Lately Changeling, The Wind Bloweth and Blind Raftery have marked him as of the high company of true romanticists...
Those astronomers who specialize in planetary lore are enjoying a treat since Mars is now at its closest point to the earth. The actual date of nearest approach is Aug. 23. At this time the planet is only 35 million miles away as against a possible distance of about 63 million miles when the two planets are at opposite sides of their orbits. These approaches, such as the present, occur every 26 months or so, but there is a variation of some 2 million miles in the nearness depending on what part of their eliptical orbits the two planets...
Unlike most other universities, Harvard has few traditions; aside from the Reinhardt legend, the wearing of old hats, and Professor Copeland, the university's stock of folk-lore is extremely limited--except, of course, for the studied cultivation of Indifference. This apparent barrenness of background, however, does not prevent a certain sympathy for other universities in their occasional bereavements...
...Manhattans exile any more fortunate in genealogical tree-lore than in word-hunting. He has taken in vain the name of an active, numerous and prosperous Bay State clan, a worthy example of middle-class virtues, but in the Massachusetts sense of "family" still painfully "new," and without the indispensable seventeenth century grace and conservation. The myth of Caroline purple has doubtless been strengthened by certain famous verses, excellent in themselves, but deplorable false to fact and record Perhaps our. New York at Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this...