Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This will be followed by the Class poem, by C. A. Smart '26, and the Class Ode, by A. G. Cooke '26. In the afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the class will hold its Tree Exercises in the Stadium...
...Oration by E. J. Bliss '26 will be given at the close of the Tree Exercises. After the annual cheering, the Glee Club is scheduled to render a brief informal program, which is to be followed by the presentation of the Class banner to the Freshman Class. The singing of "Fair Harvard" and the Confetti Battle will end the afternoon events...
Leading the rest in point of authority is a spinster of 50, the last crisp leaf of a Dutch-American tree, incredibly wealthy, intellectual, unable to sleep until dawn and therefore noted for midnight suppers from which her guests escape with difficulty. Her private musicians fill the remaining night hours with concerts from esoteric composers, to which she listens with "the finest contrapuntal ear of her day." It is she, Elizabeth Grier, ever alert for novelty, who attaches the young New Englander to the Cabala and involves him in its members' affairs...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
...Genealogical Tree", Professor Hooton, Semetic Museu, Anthropology...