Word: classical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...point raised by a writer in today's CRIMSON in regard to removing the cap in such places as Appleton Chapel and Sanders Theatre is well worth noticing. We have here at Harvard adopted the classic cap and gown as an appropriate garb for the graduating class. It is, then, only consistent to include the etiquette which governs its use in those institutions where it owes its origin. The custom here is so new that we need not feel bound to continue in the lines followed by other classes. A simple word of direction from the Class Day Committee will...
...Sargent was by no means homounius libri, a man of a single book, but few scholars have shown more devotion to a chosen author than he has manifested to his beloved Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully...
...increase the intelligent study of the language by those who are already interested in it. We appreciate Skakespeare better, perhaps, when we have seen his plays faithfully presented to us on the stage. For the same reason we are likely to catch a deeper appreciation of the old Classic authors, when we see with our eyes, and not in our imaginations alone, their plays in very much the same manner as the old Romans themselves...
...were allegorical and dull, the devil who worked largely in these moralities, alone giving them any liveliness. This continued till the people wanted something more real and natural, and began to develop the drama themselves. They however neglected the unities of action, place and time of the ancient classic drama, and constructed one for themselves. John Heywood in the time of Henry VIII, was the first to represent real persons and scenes on the stage...
...century was a kind of classic period of German poetry; then poetry was treated seriously, as an art to be practised by persons of influence; and the heroic legends of the Germans were the result. This classic period was succeeded by a time when the Germans lost somewhat their national feeling, - the time of Charle magne and universal Empire. At this time, also, there was a revival of interest in the Latin writers and in philosophy. Accordingly, poetic creation languished; and during the 8th and 9th centuries we may say that classical and Christian culture was everywhere penetrating and changing...