Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is a strong probability that whether or not Syracuse is included as one of Poughkeepsie participants next June there will be at least four eights entered. All of the three large Western universities, California, Leland Stanford, Jr., and Washington, have signified their willingness to enter the Eastern classic if they succeed in winning the Western championship. Leland Stanford, Jr., took second place in the 1915 regatta, and Washington made a good showing on the Hudson a few years before...
...second Junior smoker with classic musical talent as a feature will be held on Friday, January 5. The usual refreshments and moving pictures will be part of the program and individual boxes of cigarettes will be given out. The refreshments will include bottled beer...
...death of Charles Pomeroy Parker, Harvard University loses one of her most valued professors, and the classic world is deprived of a scholar whose high character and ability has long been respected. As professor of Greek and Latin for fourteen years, he influenced the men who sat before him, not only instructing them from his wide knowledge, but inspiring them by his personality and leading them on to the more advanced fields of scholarship. Professor Parker loved the subject he taught, and what is exceptional, he was able to impart a like feeling of devotion to his students...
...Boston Transcript disagrees with the verdict of such figures and considers the assertion "that the attainment of high grades in collegiate studies is normally necessary to the attainment of success in life" an absurdity. In order to expose the absurdity of this view the Transcript cites the classic example of Generals Grant and Lee in the Civil War. The latter attained the highest rank at West Point, while Grant was satisfied with "a gentleman's standard," yet in their later careers the advantage appears to have been reversed. Upon careful investigation and reference to impartial authorities, Lee, fighting...
...that Harvard is a place where the poorest can go, where those of the least wealth can go and find a paradise of inspiration and blessing, and find their very souls mounting to higher planes and better things. Who that has walked in the shades of her classic groves can ever still the love that beats in his heart for old Harvard, or ever wants...