Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey '01 contributes a story of the expanded daily theme type. "A Serious Question" is a choice bit of realistic description, greatly marred by an anti-climax...
...simple and forms an ideal organism. Entering between the columns at the east end or front, one comes to the cella where the shrine was. Beyond is another chamber or adytum, which was used probably as a treasury. The whole idea of the temple was a house for the goddess, surrounded by columns upholding a roof...
...only a tradition now. Harvard is simply a training school for the sons of the rich, a place where wealth is honored and glorified, where the rich man's son is taught his own importance and the dignity of his money bags. Harvard can best be typified as the goddess Minerva trotting around the town with a collection box in her hand; she has business only in the Back Bay and lifts her skirts away from the contamination of the North...
...Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
...eight years. It is a sterling silver vase of Grecian design. It stands 16 inches high, and around the neck is the inscription, "University Track Athletic Cup." The decorations on the body represent the participants in the ancient contests for the laurel-wreath which is held aloft by the goddess of victory. The herald stands with his trumpet to his mouth and announces the winner. "Athlonika" is inscribed upon the body and there is also palm branch and seals of Harvard and Yale...