Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This argument is founded upon the delusion that every verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the clouds. It is hard to believe, with the new departmental examinations, the stress put upon "intellectual responsibility," and the liberal courses offered, that Harvard is fostering the "type" and discouraging "whatsoever things are elevated...
...commendable customs hereabouts, which will be observed this spring, as it has been since the vernal season first came into existence, is the appearance in the Yard of fresh, green grass. Yet there are people who would trample out these verdant manifestations; who take out their wanderlust by straying from the numerous paths upon the tender shoots. Of course the grass suffers; frequently it succumbs entirely and the Yard becomes an unsightly jigsaw puzzle. There are paths enough. Why not stay on them and give the grass a chance? And besides, he who wanders from the gravel walks...
Spring is here! For a long time we have doubted the Monthly poets, but all uncertainty has fled before the latest announcement: "Straw hats will bloom on Saturday." Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...