Word: parnassus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chance that the magazine will make itself a lasting part of the Harvard scene. The healthiest growths are those which thrive under adverse conditions, and if the Harvard Critic make a permanent place for itself it will be a welcome and valuable addition to the flocks on Harvard's Parnassus, and a credit to those who are sponsoring...
...reputation, a criticism which can be applied to other undergraduate publications. The monthly has too few readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only in its worst moments, partially because it is the traditional goat among the sheep on Harvard's Parnassus, and perhaps because it is not too anxious to be read by the hoi polloi...
...handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint, Daisy Fleabane, Devil's Bit, Lousewort and Viper's Bugloss...
...knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...
...Willa Cather settled comfortably into her niche. Last June she was respectably canonized by Princeton University, which broke its long Presbyterian tradition to make her its first female recipient of a degree.* Once a mere squatter, Willa Cather is now a taxpaying, permanently-located resident on the U. S. Parnassus...