Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laws of Harvardium was that no foreigner should be admitted to the sacred precincts and classic shades of their renowned city, unless he was able to spell ten words of a language long since in its grave. The words were so difficult to master and pronounce, that comparatively few obtained the privileges of citizenship. Other cities, notably Cornellsium, were rapidly augmenting their population by increased acquisition of new citizens, who not only rose to distinction in advancing the infant sciences, but aided materially in defending the city in times of danger...
...been suggested to me by Dr. H. B. Adams, Professor of History in the Johns Hopkins University, to call your attention to an organization of our own, similar in purpose to that at Cornell, although not entirely so in form. Instead of a Mock House of Commons. The classic form of a "Literary Society" has been dragging along a precarious existence ever since the foundation of the university, but has been lamentably unsuccessful. Our new plan combines, we think, the advantages of the old system in having an official committee charged with bringing in subjects for discussion, with those...
Student Life, the periodical published by the students of Washington University, St. Louis, says "The future of the University is bright; she is in all the vigor of youth, and it is only a matter of a few years when we who are now receiving instruction in her classic halls can point with pride to her as the most 'superbly endowed' American University...
...historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that we are bewildered as by a rumbling and unintelligible noise. In the great tragedies, except Lear, this element, although constantly appearing as a living background for the principal figures, is kept distinctly subordinate: Othello is almost classic in its unity and continuity; Macbeth, although less compact, still turns on a single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number...
...chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped not to admire the classic features of the gleaming angel, but on they sped...