Word: impromptue
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...dismayed by news that Professor Charles Townsend Copeland ("Copey") had resigned, took heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance can only be official...
...Montreal and I had been given a beautiful fancy petticoat to wear. Well, I have to kneel down and pray in one act there, and my heel caught in that beautifully complicated lace netting. When I started to get up, the lace began in tear and this impromptu tail trailed after me as I strode across the stage. The audience was laughing, they had seen the predicament I was in, so, keeping on singing. I just stooped down and tore off the entire reel of lace, put it into the jewel box that I have to carry, and slammed...
...Barely had Ambassador Herrick tasted and copiously imbibed the nectar of French culture, when he saw the cup about to be dashed from his lips by blond Teutons to whom dusky, petite France was a morsel, not an inspiration. Nearer tramped the Conquerors. An impromptu French defense, mobilized in taxicabs seemed sure to crumble. Frightened, scared to the marrow, Frenchmen proceeded to withdraw their capital from Paris to Bordeaux. Automatically the Diplomatic Corps would follow the Government. Suddenly it was discovered that the U. S. Ambassador alone proposed to remain behind...
...tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Arena, the University puck chasers will play their last game before the lay-off which is to be in order during the midyear period. As several of the players must work for the approaching examinations, the game will be more or less impromptu. As many times as the two institutions have met on the gridiron and other fields of battle, they clashed on the ice for the first time last year, when the Bear grudgingly yielded...
Coach E. J. Brown '96, stressed the fact that this was not the official beginning of the season, but only an impromptu affair, official rowing beginning of February 6. The only lettermen of the crew who were present yesterday were Captain John Watts '28, and F. A. Clark...