Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Says the Boston Transcript: "Apropos of the Harvard Latin, how are coming generations to know whether the classic "Jacobus" of the quinquennial catalogue is the equivalent of the Semitic Jacob, pure and unadulterated, or the unadulterated, or the naturalized James...
...abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered to stock it with various creatures that creep, and more that crawl. It is even rumored that Jumbo is to find his last rest within the classic shades of the "terminal morraine." Tufts has not indulged in the luxury of an "Annex," but it has a pond. And it has a clay pit where the crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character of Tufts is shown in the students and their societies. Every...
...only my pup that I have with me for a day or two." We expected much, but not this. Wellesley girls keeping dogs! We look about us and feel at once at home when we catch sight of the frequent recurring name so familiar to our eyes, the classic "Bohn." We feel at once that we are in good society. Upon the walls are hung three fragments of a brown cane, a sign of "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," a tennis racket, a heliotype copy of the University of Pennsylvania's famous challenge, a broken base ball bat, a baby...
...time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner's (Leipsig) English does to Macaulay. Meeting an American friend, in reply to an inquiry as to his health, Prof, Hubner, anxious to air his familiarity with English, upon his knowledge and mastery of which he prided himself not a little, exclaimed, 'I am much in misery...
...centres of English culture, and as I wander in these gardens and look at these time-warn and ivy-covered walls and towers, I seem to be nearer, by a little, at least, to the men who have gone out from these classic shades. Here I am shown the cell where Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke...