Word: hibernian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he took over from Julian Coolidge '95 in September, 1940, Perkins has shown an appreciation for a good joke well played. The House member who risked his distinctly non-Hibernian neck to make the Lowell tower glow green on St. Patrick's Day night got a fine letter of recommendation to the Medical School, half of it devoted to that incident. When Perkins learned that the prankster was one of the first from his class to be admitted, he was not surprised. "I know they are always interested in a fellow with ideas," he says with a smile...
...from recollection in his small studio, and in jealously guarded secret. His custom is to put every picture away for six months to a year, then decide whether to show it or destroy it. This year, for the first time in Dublin memory, the annual exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy had no new Yeats to show...