Word: pond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoreau, as anyone familiar with that distinguished circle of New England transcendentalists which included Emerson and Hawthorne among its members, will know, became immortal when he made his famous experiment at Walker Pond. Here, desiring to prove that man could be as independent as the animals, he lived in a hut supporting himself by tilling a small plot and doing odd jobs in the neihboring village--and renouncing the society of men, for the society of birds...
President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College: "Some men amused themselves and my white puppy, Riff-Raff, by throwing sticks for the latter to fetch out on the thin ice of Sunset Lake [Vassar campus pond]. Once the stick skittered far from shore. Riff-Raff, scampering after it, saw too late a hole yawning in the ice. He set his feet, slid into eight feet of water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards...
...picture to suit every taste. From the careful almost miniature-like technique of the "Sorco River, North Conway," with its quiet backwater reflecting the overhanging trees--and with which, be it admitted, the Student Vagabond was strongly impressed--to the rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine of the "Sandbank at Nawshon", there is a variety and freshness in execution which cannot fail to please any vagabond who is wise enough to take...
...past winner of the contest, and Gordon Culham, M.L.A., in City Planning. '25, of the Olmsted office in Brookline, who served with Professor J. L. Pray '95, chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture; Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, of the firm of Olmsted Brothers; and Professor B. W. Pond, M.L.A. '11, President of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects...
...winner of the contest, and Gordon Gulham, M.L.A. in City Planning, '25, of the Olmsted office in Brookline, who will serve with Professor J. L. Pray '95, chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture; Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, of the firm of Olmsted Brothers; and Professor B. W. Pond, M.L.A. '11, President of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects...