Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anonymous contribution to the literature in and of the University was made yesterday by a bard who has masked his real identity under the pseudonym "Silver Star." The contributed bit of poetry was found framed on the ledge underneath one of the Sargent paintings in Widener Library in the company of a wreath also anonymously presented. The Library authorities have been unable to find out the identity of the donor or donors and no statement has been made with regard to the permanent position of the two gifts...
...Karl Muck, pre-War conductor of the Boston Symphony, similarly refused (in 1918) to conduct "The Star Spangled Banner." Ousted, he now conducts for the Berlin State Opera, is considered the greatest living interpreter of Wagnerian scores...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...
Before the dinner each of the assemgled guests was given a certificate recounting the achievements he had hung up in previous meets. Henry McDevitt, a Dartmouth track star who was described on the program as being a lap ahead of all the other contestants, led a number of college songs, after which the meeting was given over to speeches...
...string pitcher against Harvard for the second time tomorrow when the two teams clash outside the Palmer Stadium. No changes will be made in the Tiger batting order, and whatever pitcher Coach Mitchell nominates for mound duty will be faced with the same array of stickmen that shelled Barbee, star Harvard twirler, off the hillock a week...