Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because the "independent college" was still in the making. Evidently it is still in the making, for the bee last week gave notice that he was about to settle temporarily upon a small but hardy perennial, St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.). There he will exchange, for the pollen of salary and security, the honey of vision and experience, lecturing in advanced Philosophy courses (including six addresses on Education for Democracy), generally promoting the academic and social life of the institution, specifically assisting President Enoch B. Garey, with "important changes" in pedagogical policies, doubtless some of the very changes...
...bear the weight of the Chain (about seven pounds for each shoulder). In the afternoon, guests assemble before the stage of the Vassar outdoor theatre; an orchestra of strings and woodwinds strikes up a martial air; the chain-bearers lift their load, oftentimes sneezing because of the dusty pollen of the daisies. Slowly they circle the stage where the Seniors stand, march up a hill, split their column into two lines through which the Seniors, who have followed, pass...
...jacket on this volume of poems describes them as "poems of the earth and of ultimate space, of the pollen-dust of the buttercups, and the gold-dust of Orion...