Word: classical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Herald says: "That light and volatile individual, "The Professor," will invade the classic shades of the Hub and set his confreres in the neighboring university an example which they will do well to avoid if they do not wish to destroy the dignity of that respectable seat of learning...
Schiller, by James Sime, is the latest foreign classic for English readers. Forthcoming volumes in this series will be on Tasso and on Rousseau...
...world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed by these predecessors of ours, and the traditional literary bent of Harvard is by no means lost...
...system of self-government by college students is not altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days...
...Classic Slang - Frigidus dies when I get sinistrum. Quinquagesima sestertii all around. Non ad novus, justus-don't be afraid we won't say it, but you must remember that when Latin was spoken, jokes of this kind must have been comparatively...