Word: musee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall sit and sadly muse...
...Consumption, which had been for half a century the muse of literature, became a blot on society, the symbol of all that was rotten in the industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
President Charles William Eliot, however, thought it would be a "counterfeit presentment...of very doubtful desirablness." In October, 1883, he admitted, "The young Harvard has every claim to a statue, but...what could be better, or more effective, than a Muse of History, of classic model, holding in her hand a tablet inscribed with the name of John Harvard...
Belgian Poet Pierre-Louis Flouquet suggested a remedy: a worldwide "poetry day" in May during which all schools would devote a solid hour to the muse, sending the students home to brighten their parents' drab, workaday existence with a bit of T. S. Eliot or Rabindranath Tagore. After spirited debate, Flouquet's motion was voted down...
...main fault was poor team work; this was almost erased in the second half showing Saturday. Outstanding attack-man Tom Whedon, who scored three goals and gained three assists against Tabor, will start the game along with Jim Dorsey and John Taylor. Bill Cormack, Tom Crump, and Rip Muse will probably get the defense nod. Dick Simmons will play in the nets but Pickett said that Simmons would probably share goalie duties with Steve Denhartog, starting net tender in the first two games of this season. The midfields will probably remain the same with Tim Anderson, Pete Palchas...