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...sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath and tear out a handful of became more savage. Undergraduate organizations sent picked goon squads to crab the flowers, and the Tree Exercise "uniform" changed to old clothes and football outfits...
Tradition has it that the first filly to boot a winner home this morning will wear the winner's wreath in the biggest rat race of them all-a wedding band--before any other member of her class. If she already has the services of a legally acquired stud, the story goes, she will be the first to foal...
...starting signal, the highly-strung athletes will simultaneously begin to run, to roll their hoops, and to squeal. The race ends at the Chapel, where the winner will receive a wreath...
Adventure Enough. In this typical "bit of dialogue, Novelist Elizabeth Taylor skips ahead of the reader to state-and quickly puncture with mockery-the best justification for her novels. A Wreath of Roses is her fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
...Wreath of Roses is not the "perfect novel" that she has confessed she would like to write, but it contains three extremely well-drawn characters: two young women and a baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous...