Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first issue of the "Tiger" appeared in March, 1882, and elicited the following editorial comment from the "Harvard Daily Herald", which then held the position of regular University news organ: "A screaming 'Tiger', going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces...
President Lowell will speak at a commemorative service to be held at the Arnold Arboretum tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the memory of Charles Sprague Sargent '62, Arnold Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard from 1879 until his death, which occurred on March 22, and director of the Arnold Arboretum for 54 years...
...spoke with more animation of the firing, in reprisal, upon Nanking by a British and a U. S. warboat: "I remember that my father came to the boat on the morning of March 24 and told us* to 'be steady.'" "He thought we would be able to go back to the city and continue working in a few days, even though conditions were so unsettled...
...again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes...
...this true of the donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...