Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Charles Stark '33, of Washington, D. C.; secretary-treasurer, Edgar Jacobs Davis '29, of Merrimac. After the business of the meeting was attended to, the members proceeded to play the game after which the club is named. Three new sets were presented to the cub by G. S. Parker of Salem, who introduced the game last spring after ten years of experimentation. It is planned to model the organization upon the procedure established by the Chess Club...
This collection is now the most complete existing of the Victorian artist, poet, woodcarver, and eminent socialist. It is the gift of A. H. Parker '98, given in memory of Caroline Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture...
...0ther U. S. composers whose works have been produced at the Metropolitan: Frederick Shepherd Converse, the late Professor Horatio William Parker, of Yale (his Mono, was awarded a $10,000 prize), Walter Damrosch (to whom Peter Ibbetson is dedicated), Victor Herbert Reginald de Koven, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Adam Hugo, Joseph Carl Breil, Henry Kimball Hadley, John Alden Carpenter. Composer Carpenter's Skyscrapers, a ballet, and Taylor's The King's Henchman survived longer than the dreary ten which preceded them...
Second match: Connor (B.A.A.) defeated Brenner, Kerlin, and Yatsevitch, as did Parker (B.A.A.); Altenburg (B.A.A.), defeated Yatsevitch and Brenner; Kerlin beat Altenburg (B.A.A...
Third match: Wesselman defeated Connor and Altenburg (B.A.A.); Allen downed Parker and Altenburg; Connor (B.A.A.), defeated Cassidy; and Cassidy defeated Parker (B.A.A...