Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of development of the hardy plants outdoors is not so nearly realized. It will take much further labor and effort to prepare the hard clay soil for the separate plant groups. A few beds are in fairly presentable shape, as samples of what should be done, but for the most part the soil is yet hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over...
...Harvard athletic policy has received? A plea has been made for a return to the former spirit of sportsmanship in American athletics, and an example such as it is, has been set for other colleges to follow. It is an ideal worth striving for, but the President's program is as impractical as was the Harvard Crimson's proposal in 1925 when the editors sought to diminish the number of games and remove all big rivals other than Yale from the Harvard schedule. --Yale Daily News
Violin solos by Mrs. W. E. Treanor will also feature the program...
...that message President Coolidge, in accordance with his program of economy, declared himself an opponent of naval construction. Notwithstanding, a bill was passed in Congress for the construction of a giant dirigible, intended to replace the destroyed "Shenandoah", and for other naval appropriations...
...supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music...