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...Aristocracy. Through the crag's proud centuries, a squalid village had groveled 500 feet below on the poplar-lined banks of the river Lot. (Dr. Faure's daughters regarded the village as "une saleté dégoûtante," a blot on creation...
Chapel Hill: Does Davis Poplar still spread its shade over campus at University of North Carolina...
Hooked. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., a fisherman went to a doctor to have a multiple fishhook removed from his hand, jerked the hand, hooked the doctor; a second doctor unhooked them...
...sunny morning, at a North Carolina crossroads marked by a ruined chapel on a hill, a traveler climbed wearily from his horse. There, in the shade of a big poplar tree, William Richardson Davie, the future governor of the state, took a long, cool draught from the jug beside him, and gazed about. "Here," he said to himself, "we will put our new university...
Last week, more than 150 years later, the ivy-covered Davie Poplar still stood on the campus at Chapel Hill as a clutch of topflight U.S. educators (among them 14 college presidents, including Harvard's James Bryant Conant) gathered to hold the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities and to help the University of North Carolina celebrate its 150th birthday. (North Carolina's party had been in progress since 1939: celebrating first the 150th anniversary of its charter grant, then of its cornerstone laying, etc.) Proud old University of Georgia says it got its charter first...