Word: moons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them at any table. You can hear them through the length of the hall. They fraternally greet all whom they see, and hold long-winded conversations over all subjects from politics to the moon. Sometimes a group will gather and an amateur forum is organized, like nothing so much in the broad world as a Ladies Aid Society holding a sewing bee. To the weary and unwilling listener to these parleys it seems strange that so much wisdom could be contained in so small a space. Surely Diogenes and his tub had nothing on a few loquacious spirits and their...
...Window" and "Tryst." The latter, a musical, romantic, little piece, is quite excellent; the former is not so good; Mr. Norris lets his penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...Venice Unseen" is an offering by Mr. Kloeber, imaginative and exaggerated, as "the silver night"; why not perhaps (when the moon is not shining) a qualification, as in Milton's "Comus": "Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
...total eclipse of the moon will occur early Monday morning, the moon entering the shadow at 12.50 o'clock. In order to offer to members of the University and their friends the facilities for an intelligent observance of the phenomena, the Astronomical Laboratory on jarvis street will be open to them continuously if the weather is clear from 12 o'clock, midnight, tomorrow until 5 o'clock Monday morning. Professor R. W. Willson '73, Director of the Laboratory, will be there to explain the eclipse...
Princeton has had luck in many games of past years, not only against Harvard but against other teams. Not zoological mascots, nor prayers, nor beautiful New Jerseyites, nor mystic rights to the full moon, can break the strength of Harvard. The Crimson team goes into the game with fingers uncrossed, as her goal line will remain when the game is over...