Word: mounted
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Further, and in close accordance with the Gospels: "Now, it was his habit to stay most of the time on the Mount of Olives, before the city, and there he also avouched his cures to the people. And there gathered themselves to him one hundred and fifty slaves, and of the populace, a crowd. But when they saw his power, which could accomplish everything he would by word, they urged him that he enter the city and hew down the Roman soldiers and Pilate and rule over us. But when knowledge of this came to the Jewish leaders, they gathered...
...last week, at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.). The young ladies performed a pageant adapted from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...
...voted it quite the most beautiful and elaborate May pageant ever held at Mount Holyoke, and doubtless it outshone many a similar affair elsewhere in the land, for Mount Holyoke had outdone herself to observe the 25th anniversary in office of her celebrated President, Dr. Mary Emma Woolley...
...Biblical history and literature was called to South Hadley. She was a Connecticut girl who, after teaching at Wheaton Seminary, had fitted herself for collegiate teaching by five years' study at Brown University. How active she has been during the past quarter century outside the walls of Mount Holyoke, as well as within them, may be judged from the astonishing list of national committees, boards and trusteeships listed solidly under her name for the better part of a column in Who's Who-prominent positions in Phi Beta Kappa, the Y. W. C. A., the College Entrance Examination...
...speakers today will be A. D. Phillips '26, W. C. Hicks, and Sidney Lovett, of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston...