Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That parasitic serpent on the tree of knowledge, the Professional Tutor, is brought under the glare of undergraduate analysis in the current Advocate. Surprisingly enough, the process leaves the reader with the distinct impression that the genus is not entirely poisonous; potential virtues he has, avows Mr. Herz, even though they are outweighed by his sins...
...music? Perhaps no song in the show equals the "Here in My arms" of "Dearest Enemy' but then, few songs could. "Where's That Rainbow?" has a nice lilt and good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters...
...Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is allowed to keep a cow in the Yard; but unfortunately he does not do so. To serenade the Professors' daughters and pretty girls of Cambridge is no longer an fait. Still other customs remain in altered from. There is still a tree orator on Class Day, though there is no tree. And the confettl battle in the Stadium on the same day is but the mild aftermath of the great struggle around the tree. In the space which now composes the Bollis-Harvard-Idonel-Bolden Chapel quadrangle grew the tree, and around...
...uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong sounds of secure life, she begins to recover her poise. "She heard the noises of the night, the tree-frogs and crickets, the frogs at the wet place beyond the milk house. . .-. The leaves of the poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet rather than of a novelist. Creating...
...clique which included Glenway Wescott (author of The Grandmothers, The Apple of the Eye). In 1922 after winning the Fisk Prize for poetry, she published her verses, Under the Tree, but not until she published a year ago The Time of Man, a novel dealing with the country people of the south, did critics realize her as an important and highly individual expert novice in U. S. letters...