Word: severities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian village. The rush and stir of exams, Commencement, and Reunion had passed. Tercentenary Theater had returned to its unknown lair from which it would not emerge until next June; the Yard was shady, quiet, and deserted. Ivy-covered Widener frowned down on ivy-covered Emerson and ivy-covered Sever. Vag was sorry that he had stayed in Cambridge. Better to have gone almost anywhere--New York, Maine; but he had chosen a couple of weeks of rest, and now it was almost time for the summer term to open...
Favored with a cool evening and a novel blue sky, the Glee Club ducked out from Sever 11 last night to line Widener's steps for the first of its two Yard Concerts. Taking their cur from the 7 o'clock chapel bell, the songsters led off with the Harvard Hymn, strayed from there through Virgil Thomson and Handel, and then chorused home with a brace of football songs, abetted--if not too precisely-- by the audience...
Coeducation stared a Sever 5 class squarely in the face yesterday morning when two Cambridge moppets, approximately six years of age, wandered into a Math Ab section meeting...
...seven in the evening three times a week distraught baritones may be seen sprinting up to Sever Hall, for Associate Professor G. Wallace Woodworth starts his Glee Club rehearsals on time. With a gigantic sweep of his muscular arms, he sets two hundred pairs of vocal cords vibrating in unison. Late comers tiptoe to their positions to swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime...
John Ciardi, who prefers to be called a poet who went to war rather than a war poet, gave the third in an annual series of Morris Gray readings yesterday afternoon in Sever...