Word: vernal
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When suddenly I discovered the reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie...
...Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
...recent idiosyncrasies of Cambridge journals--mere reactions, of course, to the monotony and morbidity which are March--have not been unique in the world of learning. Approaching spring has tempted minds, moored far from Harvard, into vernal vicissitudes of a varied nature...
...ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime* surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants. People have stepped from decorating their altars to decking their bodies...
...screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly is waiting...