Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training for the various events under the supervision of Captain Mandell, and a team of at least fifty will be sent to Mott Haven in May. In the hundred and two twenty, Moen, '91, and Lee, '91, are the best men. Lee is running in splendid form and is expected to give Sherrill a big surprise. Wells, the winner of the college quarter for the past three years, is expected back to win the event again this year. Other promising candidates for the quarter are Bachelder, '91, Wright, '91, and Rhoades, '92. Stead, '91, and Davenport, '90, are looked upon...
...very glad that a club of graduates of other colleges is to be formed. Our graduate department offers splendid facilities for work, and is a department on which our reputation as a university will in a great measure depend. To a club of this sort, whose purpose is to bring home to students of other colleges the advantages that Harvard offers for study, we extend our heartiest encouragement...
...bearing olive branches and the young girls carrying baskets on their heads. From the western frieze, step by step, the figures become quieter in their character, changing from martial scenes to those of religious rites. The whole of this Panathenaic frieze now forms one of the most splendid of the works of art. The sculpturing is delicate and clear while the positions could be hardly more graceful. Moreover there is no superabundance of figures; every one is necessary and helps to give the beautiful effect to the whole...
...Harvard. It was not until the early part of winter that Mr. Storrow, in the face of a certain amount of passive opposition, took the rather daring step, by engaging Mr. Faulkner as coach, of throwing overboard all those principles which, it is supposed, had won Harvard many a splendid victory. An entirely new system of rowing was inaugurated, and there was much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation...
...Wheeler said that the Parthenon was always regarded with the greatest veneration by the Athenians. The temple was a splendid offering to Athena, rather than a place for her worship; the Erechtheum was the temple devoted to her worship. Nothing shows the veneration of the Athenians for the Parthenon better than its history, for it was never desecrated in any way until the disappearance of the chryselephantine statue of Athen. This statue disappeared about the middle of the fifth century, A. D.; at about the same time the temple came into the hands of the Christians and became a church...