Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catalogue of the innumerable colleges and "universities" of the West. Ohio, perhaps, can claim to be the greatest mother of colleges in the Union; at least her brood is more numerous than any other. Kenyon, Oberlin, University of Wooster, Baldwin University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio University (located amid the classic shades of "Athens"), Heidelberg College, Denison University, Wittenberg College, Antioch College - the list is truly apalling. The predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy the vaulting ambition of the Ohio man save a monopoly of national offices...
...recent criticism of Salvini's "Lear" says : "Despite the classic elegance of Salvini's acting and the perfect pathos of his whole representation of the tottering, grand old king, dozens of people came away feeling no more kinship with the woes of "Lear" than they would with some fate-driven hero of Greek drama. In fact, many admitted this parallel, and spoke of feeling something akin to the remote admiration that they felt for the OEdipus of Mr. Riddle when first presented to them at Cambridge, a few seasons...
...head at so early an age, I have changed my resolution of sending my son to the above university. I will seek to place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education of those to be placed under their charge...
...eyed wanderer haunts the classic shades of Harvard, looking out upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer...
...great bell some fine morning when the clouds will allow the comet to be visible. If our correspondent who objected to the ringing of the bell on Sunday nights, as being a thing "that would not be tolerated in large cities," cannot stand these innovations, let him flee these classic shades. We hope that the college will lose no time in adopting this suggestion, so worthy of Vassar...