Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...joyous sense of well-being. It was under the inspiring sky of that country, and in the midst of living models formed by the games of the palaestra and the exercises of the gymnasium and the stadium that the art of sculpture, full of the divine thought, begot the Apollo of Belvidere. The Greek idea, that body and mind work together and that it cannot be well with the one if it be ill with the other, might seem an axiom whose self-evidence could be questioned only in a fit of insane infatuation. Yet for ages the truth...
...HOPKINSON, Sec.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.-There will be a rehearsal with Mr. Locke in Roberts Hall at 12 o'clock today. It is very important that every member should be present. Bring all copies of the Apollo collection of glees...
...name of the Second Glee Club at Yale has been changed to the "Yale Apollo Club...
...Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything, but he is not a "bold, bad man." What is he, she, or it, then? Well, in the first place he generally "rags something less than 99 per cent., but he does not play the "Advocate's" little poker game...
...glass cases, of the heart, brain, eyes, are perfect exhibitions of those objects. In the midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere and a Venus de Medici show in one room imitations in plaster cast and in marble, models of art and of the just and fairest proportions of the human form...