Word: academus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last number, which appeared in March, 1811, contained a farewell address of the editors, in which they complained that the cause of the failure of the magazine was due to jealousy and envy, "in a place too, where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, where we have witnessed the emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself an unnatural foe to its literary seniours...
...months, such a conclusion is a mortifying recompense for the devotion of time, and the pains of composition." They make complaint also of the opposition they have met from envious associates and say: "In a place too where the bad passions should never come, in the sacred groves of Academus, we have witnessed the ineffectual and contemptible emotions of an envious spirit, which has shown itself a foe to its literary seniours." (The Lyceum was published by members of the senior class.) And they continue: "Such has been the treatment which we have received, undeservedly, we trust, from those...
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