Word: syntax
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...extensive knowledge of ancient Greek. The director of the school, a man fifty years of age, is the leading Hellenist in America and England, a professor in Harvard University at Cambridge, translator of the Morals of Plutarch, author of a Greek grammar, of a most excellent work on the Syntax of the Greek Moods and Tenses, and of many other philological treatises.... The school, for the present, until it shall have erected its own building, has rented a newly repaired house near Hadrian's Gate and the Pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. We heartily welcome the coming...
...president of Dartmouth College caught one of the students helping himself to wood from the presidential pile. 'Young man,' saith the venerable officer, 'what authority have you for taking away that wood?' To which the youthful rogue, mindful of his Latin syntax, replied, 'Opus and Usus, signifying 'need,' require the 'Ablative.' 'Take it, my son, take it,' said the old man; 'but when you have need again come to me and I will give you better authority than that...