Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human life...
There is one passage, however, which stands by itself in versatility of misapprehension, if you will excuse the phrase. It is this: "What good will it do us to pick out of a hundred years the three in which accident gave Yale a greater proportional increase than Harvard, and argue from this trifle that Harvard is going to the dogs?" There are four things to be said in regard to this...