Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parts of the Dunster crest are embodied in the large center gate, which is flanked by two side portals. The inscription, beneath the motto "Mihi Parta Tuerl", reads: "In memory of Charles Chauncey Stillman, of the Class of 1898, these gates to Dunster House were given by his son Chauncey Devereux Stillman, Class...
...Harkness Boot" printed an article entitled "The Elks in Our Midst" beneath the title of which there is surely no need to go. Tap Day is one with Freshman fraternities and fence rushes. According to a letter in the "Daily News" it is "obsolete as the antimacassar, the wall motto and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett." In a word, "Tap Day" and the ritual of secrecy appears in the light of the new maturity childish, sophomoric; and ridiculous...
...exactly resembled all the other forks at table, was of solid silver, engraved with an ornate crest supported between a lion and a unicorn rampant. It bore the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense...
...Esmond Ovey made no protest, went on quietly forking some excellent caviar. Beyond a doubt all the knives, forks and spoons on the table had been seized during the Russian Revolution from the then British Embassy-i.e. stolen. Never did the grand old motto of the British Royal Arms turn up more appropriately, "Shamed be he who thinks evil...
...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...