Word: classically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that...
Daniel Pratt has returned to the classic shades of Cambridge and entertains students going to and from Memorial Hall with learned dissertations upon Sam Jones and Sam Small, who, he declares, are afraid to except his challenge to speak in public on topics connected with the bible...
Citizens of Cambridge, lend us your ears! - "A Cambridge correspondent of the Critic actually insinuates that the atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone...
FROM "TOPICS OF THE TIME" IN FEBRUARY "CENTUAY.""The determined attack upon classical education, which looked for a time like a successful rebellion, has been in reality of signal service to the cause against which it was directed. Among other offensive measures adopted by the friends of the old learning was the establishment at Athens of a school where rising American Hellenists could enjoy the same advantages as were afforded to their co-workers from Germany, France and England. The practical man would have flouted the scheme as chimerical. But, four years since, a few professors from leading colleges, full...
...often wonder whether the greedy devouring of magazine reading will not blunt the edge of their old-time appetite for classic works. It is the experience of most students to feel no such effect...