Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this late day suppress a sigh of regret for one of the changes which was brought about last summer during the absence of the students in what might be called one of the historic landmarks of old student life at Harvard. Everybody is familiar with the tender and classic ditty : "A poco lived on Brighton street." Every student of this as well as of former days has been made familiar with the classic thoroughfare celebrated in these lines. Therefore no student returning to college this fall we presume has failed to notice the change made by the wise and weighty...
...prevalent among the different classes, for the sophomores to indulge in such practical jokes upon the freshman as to sell them seats in the chapel or hymn books. A favorite trick seems to be to refer the unsuspecting young man who has just taken out his papers in that classic university to the house of some professor for a boarding place. The amiable sophomore also has the habit of making friends with his freshman victim and offering to initiate him into the mysteries of the university. We, at Harvard, feel confident that our freshmen are a superior order of being...
...proud title of "University city" is one that can possibly be stretched to cover the entire territory included under the name of Cambridge, together with its numerous prefixes and suffixes. By the Boston Transcript, at least, the above title is extended to include the classic precincts of Cambridge port, where recently a rather curious proceeding has been taking place. A performance of "Young Mrs. Winthrop" by a Madison Square Campany has been advertised to take place at Union Hall in that town, a building hitherto restricted to the accommodation of the most strictly virtuous of Star lecture courses and Swiss...
...Harvard freshmen now pervade the Cambridge street cars. They can be identified easily at one thousand yards, and are as rapidly to be distinguished from the student who has had a year's acquaintance with the classic "Yard." The newcomers will catch the famous Harvard style, however, in a few months.-[Globe...
General Daniel Pratt appeared yesterday with a new and "classic" poem, in which the "dashing, crashing waves" sweep over the "omniscient heads of the mountains...