Word: pondful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...
Foremost among these streams is one whose source was a muddy pond, where Sever Hall now stands, and which ran across the square and down what is Brattle Street today. This muddy creek was marked by a tiny foot bridge where the kiosk now stands...
Both the CRIMSON pond and the one in the yard were filled in over 80 years ago as proven by maps of the University made in 1260 that do not show either the ponds or the streams running from them. Maps of this period, however, do show still another creek, coming from the direction of Somervill and passing across the present site of the biology building and Peabody Museum...
...Pamela Pond '53 of Barnard Hall and Hamden, Connecticut...
Sarah (Betsy) Pond '53 of 51 Walker St.; Choral Society...