Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University of Pennsylvania has the plans and money for a theatre and hall for commencement exercises. Here performances of classic plays, such as the "Acharnians," the Greek play which the students produced in May, 1886, with success, will be given...
...Horticultural Hall. While the figure modeled from Sullivan cannot fail to attract attention as a wonderfully realistic presentation of the modern athlete, as contrasted with the Greek types with which we are so familiar, the other statues show inspiration, of a higher sort. It is indeed encouraging to see classic subjects treated by an American sculptor with such freshness of conception and such spirit and success in execution. A more charming figure than that of "The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus after the Battle of Salamis" it would be difficult to find. Such a work is worth more than pages...
...growth of historical studies at Harvard College is a subject of special educational interest, for it illustrates a process of academic development which is now in progress throughout the country at large. This process marks the rise of modern studies, as distinguished, on the one hand, from classic humanism, our inheritance from the Renaissance, and, on the other, from theological training, our inheritance from the Middle Ages...
...evening last, bound for New York by the steamer "Pilgrim" of the Fall River Line. Four or five cars were specially reserved for the men through the foresight and care of Mr. Palmer, and they were speedily packed with as jolly a crew as ever went forth from these classic halls to discomfort Yale and back their alma mater. As the train moved out of the depot, cheer after cheer went up from every voice, the manly basses of the upper-classmen being occasionally interspersed with the timid squeak of the freshmen. People stared and glared and wondered what...
...Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people. How many complaints have been made, whereof the purport is that on Sunday evening last there was a great rush from the high-ways and byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either to stand at the very back...