Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...influence to enter some charmed circle, as it were, where all is lovely and everything is in his power. Others think our college is the very hot-bed of extravagance and ruinous habits, and that it is impossible for anyone now-a days to pass four years within its classic walls without being misguided...
...expect that the more intellectual arts and sciences will be absorbed in unobtrusive silence, and that their achievement will not attract any notable share of public attention, and that base-ball and boat racing will be studied with a fervor which cannot but trumpet the accomplishments of their classic followers to the notice and admiration of an expectant world. Local pride leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students...
...class day has become an institution of equal importance with the stately and scholastic day of gowns,- commencement. The General Court no longer feast beneath the classic shades, they have given place to their fair daughters. Nor is it upon the "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples" that the daughters feast. The "sober and God-fearing fashion" has passed into a round of jollity that shames the sober bachelor graduates who wander about aimlessly seeking they know not what, and territies papa and mamma in their watch-towers of observation with its desperate flirtation...
...pleasant day, during the Easter vacation, N-and I started for the classic walls of Harvard, that ancient seat of learning, where, according to anxious parents, "the dear boys" work so hard delving in the rich mines of intellectual ore there found, and taking their recreation only in a "feast of reason and a flow of soul;" but where we had decided, after due reflection, they were, in reality having a very good time, paying small regard to such trivialities as lectures or recitations and indulging in recreations far more substantial...
...well fitted to heighten the effect of the exhibit. The great taste which has been displayed in the finish of the room will here serve a double purpose. While the exhibit might appear stiff and unartistic without some accessaries as a relief, Professor White's room in its classic statuary and richly colored walls, will prove a most fitting means of a thoroughly artistic display. It is intended that this exhibit shall be thrown open to the public next Wednesday, and we need hardly prophesy, from the enterprise of the management, that the success of the exhibition is assured...