Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This is the day which of all days in the college year was devoted in times past to the exercise of systematic terrorism on the part of the Sophomores towards the Freshmen and the honored customs, once so faithfully carried out, are vividly brought before our minds by the epithet even now applied to this first Monday of our year, namely "bloody"-and epithet which is one of our inheritances from our ancestors. The term has lost its ancient meaning and significance. We do not regret that the days of hazing, of pitched battle between the classes, of unseemly rioting...
...never done anything in practice that could be called good time. Such rumors, in justice to both the crew and the college, should be contradicted when false, and so we desire to have all understand that thus far the crew this year has made no time deserving of the epithet "fast," or such that would lead anyone to have the confidence in their winning that we all wish we could feel. The crew is working hard, and the best that can be done is being done, but as yet fast time has not rewarded their efforts. [News...
...case that what is termed a "soft course" is far more likely to engage the time of a listless or indifferent student than that elective which is, perhaps, above all others especially fitted to his requirements and future aim in life, but which has gained the rather opprobrious epithet of a "stiff course." It therefore behooves the members of '87 to consider and arrange with no ordinary care and forethought the various electives, which they may select. No college in the country offers such inducements or imposes such responsibilities upon its students as Harvard. Many students while arranging their electives...
Commenting on the institution, the Nation says : "From its foundation onward, Edinburgh has been growing in honor and usefulness. Long ago it was called the modern Athens. Stewart, the author of the "Antiquities of Greece" is said to have suggested this epithet because of the resemblance in the aspect of the two cities, and perhaps this circumstance has had its influence upon the architecture of Edinburgh. But certainly the spirit of Athens does not require for its embodiment an acropolis or a temple. We must look beyond the natural or the structural advantages of a city if we would determine...
...book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius of a true poet...