Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played by a graduate of Girton College, who gave a charmingly earnest and dignified impersonation of the solemn-eyed goddess. On the whole, the play was performed in a very satisfactory manner, and the students are to be congratulated on presenting a work of the highest interest and impressiveness...
...poem contains a very beautiful episode of the descent of Istar, the goddess of love, into hell, which is also preserved in other tablets. It is a curious fact that parts of several editions of the poem have been found which lead to the belief that there were at one time many editions. The only place where the poem can be found is in Sayce's edition of Smith's "Chaldaean Genesis," which contains about one-third of the poem...
...That no goddess...
...work down below, and two were turning the cranks of the rough wooden windlass. They were shaggy, powerful, good-natured fellows, who shook me warmly by the hand when they learned that I was an old friend of their "pard's," and treated Elsie as if she were a goddess just stepped down from the clouds...
...Princeton are somewhat superstitious. They are now urging the advisability of changing the traditional striped jersey, worn by their foot-ball team, for some plain color after the style of Yale and Harvard, thinking thereby to better their chances and to propitiate the fickle goddess of fortune. We should regret the change and miss the unique colors and striking effects produced by the fear-inspiring "tigers...