Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True, this flood seemed to be worse than usual. Later on, perhaps, they might have to fight day and night against the waters as they had fought against them before. But the danger was still far to the north. That, without even fighting, they should abandon their homes...
...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...
...this day and more particularly on this night when the Freshman class as a unit comes out and invades the dizzy social whirl, a whirl which will never again seem either so dizzy or so social, the CRIMSON offers its congratulations and extends metaphorical rose-buds to the debutante who dances amid the Georgian simplicity of the Freshman Halls. Tonight's Jubilee will go down in history as the best ever held, for such is the enviable fate of all Jubilees...
When the University nine lines up against Georgetown on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock today, it will be facing a team that has already taken its measure. On April 21, at Washington, trailing by 6 to 2, the Blue and Gray rose in the eighth inning and smote the offerings of F. B. Cutts '28 for four runs. J. N. Barbee '28 replaced Cutts, and a pinch hitter lined out a double, scoring the tying and winning runs...
...Damrosch rose to the occasion to declare Sir Henry "foremost conductor of Great Britain." Reflecting perhaps what Sir Henry's work would be like if it were like his own, he added: "Think what it will mean to the farmers. . . . I am not a scientist with sufficient knowledge to look into the future and see what it may encompass, so I merely say that 'sufficient unto the day is the achievement thereof...