Word: classicized
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...follow the present system of distribution to its logical conclusion, it may yet be that future undergraduates will be denied altogether the privilege of witnessing the Harvard-Yale classic. RICHARD JENNEY 2E.S. CLEMENT J. TRUITT...
...their work thus far shows clearly that many of them are likely to achieve something really worth while. For the most part they have been singing pieces well-known to the musical world, such as "Carmen" "Riggelatto", "Faust", and "Aida". In these they have done admirably, giving to each classic a treatment worthy of singers of the highest rank. Besides the works, with which American audiences are better acquainted, they have put on "La Boheme", one of Puccini's greatest masterpieces, sung far too seldom on this side of the water, and more recently "La Forza del Destino" by Verdi...
...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...
...situations are constantly reused, and that when some one starts an idea like the adventures of a vamp or the mischances of a comedian in a pie shop, for years we have nothing else. This view overlooks the truly startling originality of the profession when it deals with classic literary materials. Then its imagination shows boundless liberty or at least takes boundless liberties. New York Evening Post
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...