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...lecture in Greek XI. next week will be on "The Attic Triveme...
...becoming more firmly believed that the fire was deliberately set. Two other fires have occurred in Amherst suspiciously like this in origin. The destructive fire in Cook's block, and the fire in Palmer's block, and the fire in Palmer's block each originated in the attic in such a way as to warrant suspicion that they were incendiary; the Walker Hall fire began in the same place. Just now the college feels its loss much, and vigorous attempts are being made among its alumni and friends to raise the necessary money. It has been suggested that the Western...
...upper rooms are for the most part left free; yet I have seen attic windows so strongly barred that escape was impossible. They looked onto the roof, and no doubt they had been thus blocked up in order to keep the undergraduates from passing from one set of chambers to another. Even where there are no bars, there is some danger from mere height, coupled with the absence of a second staircase. In my Oxford days I lodged in the first story, counting the ground-floor as one. Just beneath me, a man lived who one evening begged...
...exchange states that it is so difficult to write in the style of AEschylus and Sophocles because the Attic is to be reached only by the highest flights...
...compose verses for Harvardiana. And now, says Snodkins, not a single famous name on any of our college papers! We are very witty now-a-days, and we write the prettiest of verses and the staidest and wisest of editorials, but where can be found a grain of that Attic salt that flavors the pages of the Harvard Register, of 1827, for example! There is to be found the freshness of sophomoric thought in all its glory; ideas and language that never halt; and as for self-consciousness and disingenuousness, not the least in the world...