Word: classically
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...library building itself will be in the classic style, designed in the form of a Greek cross and surmounted by a dome. At the southern end of the cross and facing the main entrance to the university a flight of twenty-six steps 86 feet wide will rise to a portico of ten Ionic columns, 35 feet high, which will form the main entrance to the structure. This portico will be surmounted by a panel extending its entire length and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate of the main portico which will be 12 feet above the terrace, will...
...strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred to the Pudding before; for what could be more appropriate? An old and much-honored club of university undergraduates would seem almost predestined to this sort of wild caricature of the classic in its theatrical doings; the whole genre has an academic flavor which should have recommended it to the Pudding long ago. Here is real burlesque, worthy of the name, a caricature of something; not the inane and insane business that has usurped the name of burlesque of late years, and is really...
...Booth presented it to us changed frequently almost it would seem with the deliberate intention of the actor. It has been said that the sight of a beloved face in the audience used to inspire Booth, and put new warmth into his acting. He was by nature of the classic school, and he fell naturally into the poses, which caused many people to think of him as cold and statue like. In Mr. Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows...
...building is classic in detail, if not purely so in its design. It is by far the most costly building for its size ever built by the University...
...aspirations and failures, of his thought, his speculation, and his dreams, that we can become complete men, and learn both what he is and what he may be, for it is the unconscious autobiography of mankind. And has no page been added to it since the last ancient classic author laid down...