Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prizes of $30 and $20 have been offered by the trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy for essays on the intellectual and moral effects of athletic exercises, and on the games in ancient and modern times...
...lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England of emptying the cup or glass and then pouring the remaining drop or two upon the finger nail; for what purpose, is not known. "To buzza one," was a term used to a person who hesitated to empty a bottle that was nearly out. "Under the Rose...
...discussion of classics has again been revived. Canon Farrar has for the first time in this country expressed his convictions as to the position of the ancient languages in modern education. The words of such a pronounced classicist deserve the closest consideration. While the great devine does not take such decided ground as his celebrated countryman, chief Justice Coleridge, he still declares himself in favor of the continuance of the study of Greek and Latin as a component part of a college course. He said in a lecture before the students of Johns Hopkins University: "We are the children, after...
Special final honors are offered at Yale in the following seven subjects: Philosophy, Political Science, History and Law, English, Ancient Languages, Modern Languages, Mathematics and Natural and Physical Sciences...
...today at four o'clock. In the course of a few days, 15 or 20 men will be selected to go into regular training for two weeks, and at the end of that time our faculty will probably decide whether to allow us to play foot-ball with our ancient rivals...