Word: laurel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...year's event, no additional ornaments were placed in the Living Room, where the dancing was held, other than a large 1910 banner. The receiving party stood in the south-west corner of the room. The lobby like the Living Room, where not extensively decorated, the only ornaments being laurel festoons draped from the lights and potted palms here and there. The decorations in the rooms on the west wing and the Dining Room, in all of which boxes were located, were carefully planned. As a central lighting fixture in each room was a large gilt sunburst lighted with frosted...
...whole, the play was presented strictly for its own value, and was in no way distorted to emphasize the relative importance of the various parts. At the close of the performance Miss Adams was presented with a wreath of laurel, and, after several curtain-calls, a regular Harvard cheer was given...
...large 1909 banner under a Harvard one. The receiving party stood in the south-west corner of the room. The 21 boxes were distributed through the rooms on the first floor. A soft red light from tinted globes was suffused through the lobby, which was draped with laurel festoons. On the east and west ends a brighter light came in from the Dining Room and Periodical Room, both of which were illuminated with strings of Japanese lanterns. An attractive feature of the Game and Writing Rooms was the festooning of yachting flags. Red globes and candelabra with a profusion...
...following books by Harvard graduates have recently been published: "The Rise of American Nationality," by K. C. Babcock '95; "The Hook," by L. J. Bridgman '81; "The Jeffersonian System," by E. Channing '78; "Under the Laurel," by F. Crowninshield '60; "Provincial America," by E. B. Greene '90; "Slavery and Abolition," by A. B. Hart '80; "The Appeal to Arms," by J. K. Hosmer '55; "Edgar Allan Poe," by J. A. Macy '99; "Greece and the Aegean Islands," by P. S. Marden L.'98; "Mornings in the College Chapel," by F. G. Peabody '69; "A Flight to Eden...
...remaining nineteen boxes there were three in the Game Room, six in the Periodical Room, three in the Writing Room, and seven in the Dining Room. These rooms were lighted by colored Japanese lanterns, which made a pleasing contrast to the dark green of the palms and laurel ropes festooned on the walls. The Living Room, where the dancing took place, was decorated only with a few palms around the fireplaces and a large crimson 1908 banner on the south wall. The receiving party stood at the west end of the Living Room in front of the fireplace...