Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference are Richard Roberts of Toronto, Reinhold Niehbuhr, of the Union Seminary. New York, Raymond Calkins '90, of Cambridge, and G. Sherwood Eddy, of New York. The program scheduled provides for two platform addresses daily, one in the morning, and one in the evening on Round Top at sunset. The morning series will attempt to appraise certain central tendencies in contemporary life, and point out the place of the student in relation to them...
...acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded at Bivalve, and 500 sloops hurried down the two-mile stretch to the seed beds...
Monuments. In his last days, his countrymen thought of Edward William Bok as a man who had not only left his mark on his time, but had erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...