Word: ciceroism
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...pseudo-heroic style. Their characters prate mightily of great deeds for mother Britain, messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that the authors have written for children, but neither jacket nor advertisements give any hint of it. The tale is admirably told for a twelve-year old; it is the kind of children's story that grown-ups might take...
...family, as in the State, the best source of wealth is economy."?Cicero...
...mystery. K. S. Conkey '27 finally confessed to the ownership of the trunk and later confided that ambulance riding was quite his ordinary form of travel being an habitue of the Boston Sanitarium. "As for the trunk," he laughed, the only, thing dead in that is a set of Cicero's Orations...
...psychology of college men must be faced frankly: their most strenuous efforts are put forth only when they are convinced that there will be some general recognition of their efforts. Like Cicero they seek fame. They are young and combative, full of zest and of a tremendous will to excell, but being young they need the encouragement of applause. The trustees and awarders of prizes and scholarships and degrees with distinction must, therefore, use publicity to attract, interest, and hold the attention of the great mass of students, just as the reward of fame attracts and interests them...
Thus may read in future the name of the young son of Cicero Sapp, of Sunday comic fame, for it was reported in yesterday's comic strips that the youthful prodigy plans to enter Harvard. In fact we are shown a picture of Cyril, high school diploma under his arm, facing a baldheaded gentleman at a desk labelled "Dean". In fairness to the occupants of University 4, it must be admitted that the gentleman pictured does not resemble any of them, but he must be a Harvard dean, for there is a large "H" on his clair and a Harvard...