Word: attics
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...went through the physical laboratories, the natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much...
...Greek-The translation at sight of simple Attic prose...
...Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance to the oration of classic days as Prof. Hubner...
...George Lyman Kittredge, A. B., 1882, a prize of $100 for a translation into Attic prose...
...Harvard was compelled by the government to confer upon Butler her highest degree of nobility. With true Attic astuteness the venerable university enacted a law making her degrees revocable and had him by the hair; for, on the evening of commencement, she revoked his LL. D. for disorderly conduct in the yard...