Word: ciceros
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...with the same feeling which caused Cicero to proclaim "O! tempora, O! mores!", that I would like to make a protest against the board of editors of the CRIMSON including a student with the profound ignorance of the writer of yesterday's editorial on "British...
...expected to cover all the fields of literature. He must chose some one field, or, in certain cases, two related fields. If his field is modern, he must extend its boundaries by a study of the important works of two of the following ancient authors: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Horace, Virgil, Similarly, if the student's concentration is in the Classics, he must acquaint himself with two of the following modern authors: Dante, Cervantes, Chaucer, Milton, Moliere, Goethe. Furthermore, all students concentrating in the Divisions must show a knowledge of two works of literature which are considered indispensable...
...that some insignia be adopted to serve the same purpose that the coveted "H" does to the athlete, and at a very early date the University debating authorities awarded to the men who took part in intercollegiate debates an irregularly shaped medal bearing upon its face a medallion of Cicero and suitably engraved upon the back with the recipient's name and the memorandum of the debate in which he took part. Some time after the Corporation placed the control of debating in the hands of a Supervisory Committee and imposed upon this committee among other duties, that of expending...
...Cicero, after he had become an old man, is said to have remarked that his life had been spent in the search for a conception of ideal beauty which he had not found in any living model. The celebrated orator never had the opportunity to attend a Junior Dance in person! But his plaster bust in the hallway of the Union will have a chance to view the youth and beauty that congregate there tonight. Thus, by some quip of fate, the great Roman, though long dead, still continues his quest. As Gray wrote in his "Elegy," our fires seem...
Will the jazz of the saxophone suggest to Cicero's stony ears the flourish of trumpets? These classic features will forever grace such occasions and these lips will forever be silent although the heart of 1921 thrills with youth and laughter...