Word: odorous
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...Lamont '16 has given us a very pretty little thumb nail sketch of Japanese scenes in "Nikko, the Beautiful." There is a fragrant freshness in that two-page description, something of oriental color which fairly gives us a whiff of the distinctive odor of the bambo. Immediately one is reminded of Lafcadio Hearn. It is a pity that Mr. Lamont did not build his description about one of those many fascinating plots that claim Japan as their birthplace...
...meet than in any other building, and that in use in Harvard 5, are perennial but urgent. The illumination is at best poor, and the gas given off by the burning jets is so oppressive that the tendency is to labor entirely in the gloom rather than endure the odor. Injury to eyes or to lungs,--these are the alternatives. Recently a professor was obliged to dismiss his class, so bad had the air become on account of these antiquated gas-jets...
...undergraduates, who are presumably in good condition enough to extend to the visitors and their retainers something of the same welcome which Vanderbilt received two years ago--a welcome that is talked about in Tennessee, and one that did more to surround the name of Harvard with a pleasant odor than any official action could ever...
...cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work of literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar...
...Corps Cadet Band. Also have picture taken under the good old Elms of Harvard. 7.35. Special Cars leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. 8.30. Hotel "Griswold" sails. (Water cure discovered useless for sea-sickness). Rest of the day: Bathing, lunch, baseball game, and track sports (relay race between Class Odor and Class Poet). 5.00 P. M., or thereabouts: Homeward bound. Half of Class sees a sea-serpent. Other half sees two. On landing, meeting is adjourned to hear Harvard Night at the Pops. (NO Silent Knight either, believe...