Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile time trial yesterday afternoon to determine the team which will be entered in the Intercollegiate cross-country races at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, on November 21, six men finished under ten minutes; led by Captain J. L. Reid, '29, who covered the two mile course in 9 minutes 36 seconds...
...just added the suggestion that the memorial include a replica of the tree as it appeared a few years before its removal, a replica to be similar to work done by Dionecio Rodriquez of Mexico City, who has reproduced oak and cedar trees in cement for the park departments of Houston and San Antonio, Texas...
...work of Rodriquez has been highly commended by C. L. Brock, superintendent of the Houston public park department. Brock states, "It is impossible to convey with words an adequate idea of the perfection of the work of Rodriquez. It is the coloring which makes his reproductions truly remarkable. He uses no forms, but fashions every piece of bark, and makes every weather check by hand before the surface cement has hardened. His color process is secret...
...Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius N. Bliss Jr., Robert S. Brewster and De Lancey Kountze?was chosen to investigate other possible locations. Fifth Avenue was suggested, also Park, Bryant Park in back of the Library and Central Park South. But the associations governing these sites are opposed. A new opera house, it seems, is undesirable where it might endanger traffic congestion, establish a precedent for building theatres in nontheatrical districts, keep business houses open at night. The Committee...
...irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when Boston was blockaded, wrote a playlet that amused the inhabitants...