Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be awarded their numerals. The three second assistant managers will be appointed members of the Regatta committee and will be in charge of the Harvard Invitation Regatta which will be held probably some time in May. One innovation this year is that these second assistants will receive silver medals for their work...
...sounds overhead in a clear sky. Then you find your island alive with hot, moist orchids that make months at you and can do everything except talk. There's a waterfall in it three hundred feet high, just like a sliver of green jade laced with silver; and millions of wild bees live up in the rocks; and you can hear the fat cocoanuts falling from the palms...
...Fencers' Club has announced a Novice Foils Tournament to be held in Hemenway Gymnasium on March 2. The tournament is open to all University men who have not up to that date taken part in any intercollegiate matches. The Fencers' Club offers a first prize of a silver cup to become the permanent property of the winner, and a medal for second place. The cup is on exhibition at Leavitt & Peirce...
...poems on Helen of Troy (to whose tragedy Mr. Benet adds a tender episode), there are choruses comparable for phrase and lilt and a certain lyrical iridescence to Swinburne's "Atalanta." Where Swinburne chimes fragile silver, Mr. Benet hammers out hard steel. He revels in the resonant and triumphant metres which go ringing at full gallop as of horses who "dance . . . to the music their own hoofs make...
...been made by the Memorial Society to duplicate as nearly as possible in the colonial menu for the dinner tonight a dinner of 200 years ago when the hall was built and presented to the University by a charter from the Province of Massachusetts. Rare pieces of old silver, given to the University from time to time since its earliest days, will be used on the table. A number of old photographs of Massachusetts Hall and other University buildings will be on exhibition and a pamphlet on "The Building of Massachusetts Hall" has been prepared for distribution...