Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others named are Robert M. O'Clair 4G of Kirkland house and Cambridge, to study at Birkbeck College, London University; Burton E. Pike 1G of Perkins Hall and Newton Center, to study at the University of Strasbourg; and Andrew J. Posey, Jr. 2G of 4 Greenough Ave. and Yonkers, N.Y., to study at Tokyo University...
...serious fresh-water fishermen-and no one can be more deadly serious-will not be concentrating on anything as trivial as catfish or smelt as the season rolls along. Their chief targets will be trout, bass (large-& smallmouthed), muskellunge, perch, chain pickerel and northern pike (see color page...
...because of its refusal to admit Negro divinity students (TIME, Nov. 17) the University of the South in Sewanee Tenn., ran into more trouble last week. It had no sooner announced the appointment of a new seminary dean and four new faculty replacements than the Very Rev. James A Pike, Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral ol St. John the Divine, bluntly refused to accept an honorary Sewanee D.D. degree. "I could not in conscience," he said, "receive a doctorate in the white divinity which Sewanee apparently is prepared to offer the church hereafter...
James's Palace in the background," Sir Hugh & Co. decided that crowns should be its theme-but "some like tiaras and some like pike puddings. We think the crown we used (a sort of Coeur de Lion coronet) is really the prettiest of them all." PICCADILLY'S "rather furtive entrance on to Bond Street" was another problem: "We wanted to draw attention to it, and we decided on flowers. But the Bond Street people felt ... we should have a royal symbol. So now we'll have trumpets." THE STRAND'S decorations are a reminder that Maypole...
Critics were agreed on Gubler's genius. Said one: "The daring of a Picasso and the colors of a Bonnard." Said a German critic: "Most of the younger Swiss artists behave like goldfish in a sheltered pond . . . Gubler stands out among these goldfish like a pike." A visitor, who had flown from Paris to see the show, more aptly compared Gubler to a salmon that has produced remarkably after a terrific uphill climb...