Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late director of the Department of Physical Education, all classes will be suspended from 2 until 3 o'clock today, the time of Mr. Geer's funeral. Athletics will cease from 1.30 until 3 o'clock. During this period, the Hemenway Gymnasium, the Freshman Athletic Building, and the Big Tree Swimming Pool will be closed. The headquarters of the Department of Physical Education in Wadsworth House will remain closed through...
...modern division of the committee will have somewhat different work. It will discuss the tale of the cherry tree as the essence of truth. At the end of each year they will publish a supplement to Bartlett's "Familiar Annotations" to set forth the statistics of the birth-rate, past, present, and future, in relation to P. T. Barnum's theory that "there's one born every minute." And it will provide, it is hoped, a directory of originators of Volstead jokes, that such hardened criminals may be stalked down and slaughtered by a too patient public...
Rowing in singles will begin today for all members of the University. No man may take out a boat, however, until he has passed the swimming test at the Big Tree swimming pool...
...this familiar outline, Miss Lowell has brought new opinions, new material. She has studied old stage coach timetables, conjectured whether Keats stowed his portmanteau in the boot or had it sent by wagon; traced the influence upon his poetry of the Elgin Marbles, of an ash tree full of berries he saw somewhere, of a black eye he suffered in a game of cricket; computed how much claret he drank, examined a lock of his hair ("Such red, I think, I never saw before"), related how he received a kiss from a lady at a place called Bo Peep...
...Palm Beach, a speed boat belonging to Gar Wood, famed Detroit sportsman, rushed at high speed along an inland waterway, leaped over the bank onto the land, broke down a tree, buried itself in the underbrush, was wrecked...