Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibition ending on Thursday, April 14. Added interest has been given to the exhibit by placing in the cases certain reproductions of manuscripts which illustrate phases of miniature painting not represented before. The collection has thus been made practically an epitome of the art of illumination from the late classic times through the fifteenth century...
...late classic phase is shown pages from two Virgils, one the so-called Vatican Virgil of the fourth century, and one of the sixth century. In these manuscripts the illuminations were treat as separate pictures and not close linked with the text as in the mediaeval manuscripts...
This race is the classic of English collegiate rowing, and in the course of a discussion on the possibilities of the race, the rowing expert of the London Times dwelt at length on Lothrop's ability. He said that, "in the crew of the Oxford squad, the outstanding oarsman is F. Lothrop, who rowed at No. 2 in last year's Harvard eight which defeated Yale. He is well-built and works extremely hard. His arm work at the finish is good and when he has learned to combine his body and slide more perfectly, he should be a valuable...
That Harvard offers to the student less opportunity for what is commonly called "social life" in a narrow sense is obviously true. The hilarious mutual congratulation growing out of the coincidence that youths, seeking a classic education, buy soda water at the same drug store, and listen to the same lectures on architecture or biology, is less obstreperous than elsewhere. So far as I am aware, there is little, if any, of the kind of college life typified by the guitar with the blue ribbon and the felt flag bearing the name of Alma Mater in large white letters. Neither...
...regattas of the season-against Pennsylvania on April 16, against Columbia on April 30, and against Princeton and Cornell on May 21. All of these races are short, none of them scheduled for more than two miles, and Coach Nickals will make a big change before the four-mile classic against the University...