Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what is the correct procedure when a professor fails to appear at eight minutes past the hour? Do you know what fashion dictates to be worn at parties in Big Tree? Can you rise and depart in the middle of a lecture which bores you with perfect, equanimity...
...Harvard crews are on a different plan from other athletics; that the common ordinary or garden-variety of student has no place at the boathouse; and that before you can become a candidate for the Harvard crew, you must submit a certified account giving the details of your family tree to see if you are fit to associate with the rowing crowd...
There, they beheld anthologies in oils, signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...
Oothout, who replaced Slocum, was the outstanding star of the game for the Crimson, while Wheeler and Morse shone for the Pine Tree State quintet...
...raise the money needed; this also is uncertain some year, one may foget attend to it. The best way, to my mind, is to endow the infirmary with a fund yielding an interest of fifteen or twenty dollars, which is an adequate sum to provide for wreaths, a tree, a few trimmings, and perhaps a few flowers...